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We remember the victims and perpetrators of Stalinist terror, one day at a time. #OTD
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1/2 "[. ] the so-called organs of the NKVD are in the main a degenerate organization of unprincipled, dissolute, well-kept functionaries who, enjoying the former authority of the Cheka, seeking to satisfy the pathological suspiciousness of Stalin (I fear to say more), pursuing
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RT @TerrorCalendar: August 1, 1938. #OTD Chief of GUGB, First Deputy to two NKVD heads, Genrikh Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov, and organizer of….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: August 1, 1938. #OTD Konstantin Konstantinovich Krotovsky (Yurenev), co-founder of the Mezhraiontsy faction of the RSDL….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: August 1, 1938. #OTD Semyon Petrovich Uritsky, nephew of Social-Democratic revolutionary Mikhail Uritsky, Red Army gene….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: August 1, 1938. #OTD Eduard Berzin, 1st head of Dalstroy, the Far North Construction Trust that managed the most brutal….
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RT @Bolschewik1917: The Stalinists saying they “deserved it” are no different than the neo-Nazis who say the victims of fascism deserved it….
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RT @Bolschewik1917: That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Stalinism is the most pernicious form of anti-communism—a rot from within. Follow @….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 29, 1938. #OTD Pavel Efimovich Dybenko, a colorful Soviet military man and husband (for a time) to Alexandra Kollo….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 28, 1938. #OTD Armenian Bolshevik Yakov Khristoforovich Davytan (Davydov) was executed for "participation in a cou….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 29, 1938. #OTD Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky, the Stalin-appointed head of the Soviet film industry 1930-37, and no….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 28, 1941. #OTD Georgii Karpechenko, a 42-year-old biologist from Leningrad’s Institute of Applied Biology, was exe….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 28, 1938. #OTD Terenty Dmitrievich Deribas, a particularly brutal Chekist and later head of the NKVD in the Far Ea….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 28, 1938. #OTD Jukums Vācietis, a veteran of WW1, the Latvian War of Independence, and the Russian Civil War; the….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 28, 1938. #OTD Yakov Ivanovich Alksnis, commander of the Soviet Air Forces 1931-1937, star pilot, and recipient of….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 28, 1941. Ivan Leopoldovich Lorents is shot and buried #OTD in Kommunarka at age 50. Lorents was a prolific diplom….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 28, 1938. #OTD Izrail Leplevsky, the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs in Ukraine at the height of the Yezhov….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 28, 1938.#OTD Alexander Andreyevich Svechin, Soviet military leader, teacher, and theorist, was executed at age 59….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: Butovo “shooting range” (a euphemism) was a Moscow-area place of mass execution and burial from Aug 1937 to Oct 1938. #….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 22, 1937. #OTD Paolo Iashvili, a Georgian poet and a leader of the Blue Horns symbolist movement, ended the moral….
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RT @TerrorCalendar: July 19, 1937. Leading Georgian Bolshevik Polikarp “Budu” Mdivani was executed #otd, in Tbilisi, along with several oth….
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