Great Purge
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The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nik
Residents searching for relatives among the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943
Excerpt from NKVD Order No. 00447
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin and his daughter, Svetlana, in 1934
Bolshevik revolutionaries Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev
Vinnytsia massacre
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The Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of over 9,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during the Great Purge in 1937–1938, which Nazi Germany discovere
Great Purge
…with the sentence "10 years without the right of correspondence"; this almost always meant execution. All the bodies identified from mass graves at Vinnitsa and Kuropaty were of individuals who had received this sentence. Despite this, the lower figure roughly confirmed Conquest's 1968 estimate of 700,000…
The International commission investigating the mass murder in Vinnytsia, 1943
Mass graves for the victims
German propaganda poster of c. 1943 with text "Vinnitsa"; the NKVD gunman has stereotypically Jewish features, in accordance with the Nazi idea of "Judeo-Bolshevism".