NKVD Order 00447 was written 30 July 1937 and became the blueprint for the Yezhovshchina aka The Great Purge over 1937/38

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#AntiSoviet partisans using, among others, an up-graded version of scorched earth tactics expanded to include not only farms, but also farmers, their wives, laborers and children. For some, a war criminal or perpetrator of CrimesAgainstHumanity, for others (paraphrasing):~
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