Mass operations of the NKVD
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Mass operations of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs targeted specific categories of people during the Great Purge. Each was normally launched by an order of the head of the People's Commi
A 31 January 1938 resolution by Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to extend the National operations of the NKVD until 15 April for the destruction of Polish, Latvian, German, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Iranian, Harbinian, Chinese and Romanian "spy-saboteur contingent" signed by Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Anastas Mikoyan and Vlas Chubar
NKVD Order No. 00593
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NKVD Order No. 00593, also known as NKVD Order about Harbinites
Mass operations of the NKVD
…who were not perceived as foreigners, while ethnic Russians who had worked on the Chinese Eastern Railway and spent years abroad were targeted as "Harbinites". From the early 1920s the Soviet leadership expected a major war and a new foreign intervention. Under the logic of collective responsibility, people…
Locomotives and Railcars on Chinese Eastern Railway