A major speech to the 20th Party Congress, in 1956 on #ThisDayInHistory, #NikitaKhrushchev denounced #JosephStalin's crimes against #socialism & the Soviet people. #Stalin was attacked for his #CultOfPersonality, and the #GreatPurge and its attendant #Gulag system were disavowed.
Just received a recommendation by #PersephoneBooks: "Sofia Petrovna" by #LydiaChukovskaya - one of the few surviving contemporaneous accounts of the #GreatPurge, composed secretly in a school notebook in lilac ink during the winter of 1939-40...1/
#CommunistCoup to overthrow the #Estonian government. Escaped to the #USSR and occupied various political roles until #Stalin’s #GreatPurge when engaged as recipient of persuasive cross-examination until painlessness ensued. One of the rare Estonian communists to have a
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On #ThisDayInHistory, #SergeiKirov was assassinated in #Leningrad in 1934. The death of a senior member of the #CommunistParty of the #USSR was used by #Stalin as an excuse to launch the #GreatPurge, leading to massacres, show-trials, and expansion of the #gulag prison system.
#Bolton #tRump #FBI #Patel & the #GreatPurge
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“the housebuilder’s records clerk and a legless man are bluffing”], or Secretary of the short-lived (about six months) #Soviet of the #Commune of the #WorkingPeople of #Estonia, presumably executed during #Stalin’s #GreatPurge of 1937-38.
#Communism #Kommunism
#History #Ajalugu
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NKVD Order 00447 was written 30 July 1937 and became the blueprint for the Yezhovshchina aka The Great Purge over 1937/38
#NKVD #GreatPurge #TheGreatPurge #USSR #SovietUnion #Yezhov #Stalin #AntiSoviet #Kulak #Criminals #AntiSocial #Gulag
**Just finished a new episode for One Minute History on Stalin’s Great Purge** — edited, animated, and produced by MATS4D. A dark look at repression and power, told in under 60 seconds.
\#OneMinuteHistory #GreatPurge #Stalin #MATS4D #HistoryEditing #PoliticalRepression
That’s what fascism does:
Turns on itself.
Stalin’s Great Purge killed nearly a million—paranoia as policy.
He died isolated, feared, and untreated while his guards waited for “orders.”
When control is everything, trust dies first.
#Fascism #Paranoia #GreatPurge #Stalin
Fascism doesn’t just project—it shrinks the circle.
Like Stalin’s Great Purge, it devours even the faithful.
What begins as scapegoating ends in paranoia and self-erasure.
We broke down that logic here:
#Othering #GreatPurge #EndTimesFascism #HiveGeist #Projection
I don't drink but I randomly bought myself a sparkly wine bottle while shopping at Trader Joe's to open for the day this day fucking anti-Christ virus exits the world. #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #MachoSadists #DestroyersofAmerica #Dodge #TerrorPolice #GreatPurge #MAGA #FuckYourself
Die US-Militärjustiz wird gleich als erstes mit „gesäubert“. #GreatPurge
#noTrump #MobstersAtWork
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#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot
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![The purges were largely conducted by the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), which functioned as the interior ministry and secret police of the USSR. Starting in 1936, the NKVD under chief Genrikh Yagoda began the removal of the central party leadership, Old Bolsheviks, government officials, and regional party bosses.[10] Soviet politicians who opposed or criticized Stalin were removed from office and imprisoned or executed by the NKVD. Eventually, the purges were expanded to the Red Army and military high command, which had a disastrous effect on the military.[11][12] The campaigns also affected many other categories of society: the intelligentsia, wealthy peasants—especially those lending out money or wealth (kulaks)—and professionals.[13] As the scope of the purge widened, the omnipresent suspicion of saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries, known collectively as wreckers, began affecting civilian life. The purge reached its peak between September 1936 and August 1938, when the NKVD was under chief Nikolai Yezhov, hence the name Yezhovshchina. The campaigns were carried out according to the general line of the party, often by direct orders of the politburo, headed by Stalin.[14] Hundreds of thousands of people were accused of various political crimes (espionage, wrecking, sabotage, anti-Soviet agitation, conspiracies to prepare uprisings and coups, and more). They were executed by shooting, or sent to the Gulag labor camps. The NKVD targeted certain ethnic minorities with particular force, such as the Volga Germans or Soviet citizens of Polish origin, who were subjected to forced deportation and extreme repression. Throughout the purge, the NKVD sought to strengthen control over civilians through fear, and frequently used imprisonment, torture, violent interrogation, and executions during its mass operations.[15]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qm26z7qb7ehrz5zx36b5ro3u/bafkreifanpzyrvds2jgo7ob7af2kr5bvuqigsn3yklm3kbhlr5knns5ixu)
The purges were largely conducted by the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), which functioned as the interior ministry and secret police of the USSR. Starting in 1936, the NKVD under chief Genrikh Yagoda began the removal of the central party leadership, Old Bolsheviks, government officials, and regional party bosses.[10] Soviet politicians who opposed or criticized Stalin were removed from office and imprisoned or executed by the NKVD. Eventually, the purges were expanded to the Red Army and military high command, which had a disastrous effect on the military.[11][12] The campaigns also affected many other categories of society: the intelligentsia, wealthy peasants—especially those lending out money or wealth (kulaks)—and professionals.[13] As the scope of the purge widened, the omnipresent suspicion of saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries, known collectively as wreckers, began affecting civilian life. The purge reached its peak between September 1936 and August 1938, when the NKVD was under chief Nikolai Yezhov, hence the name Yezhovshchina. The campaigns were carried out according to the general line of the party, often by direct orders of the politburo, headed by Stalin.[14] Hundreds of thousands of people were accused of various political crimes (espionage, wrecking, sabotage, anti-Soviet agitation, conspiracies to prepare uprisings and coups, and more). They were executed by shooting, or sent to the Gulag labor camps. The NKVD targeted certain ethnic minorities with particular force, such as the Volga Germans or Soviet citizens of Polish origin, who were subjected to forced deportation and extreme repression. Throughout the purge, the NKVD sought to strengthen control over civilians through fear, and frequently used imprisonment, torture, violent interrogation, and executions during its mass operations.[15]
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#MAGAFascismIsHere #DonaldTrump #MAGAGreatPurge #JosephStalin
Felon34 has commenced with his Joseph Stalin-style #GreatPurge.
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