Image: Great Purge Stalin Voroshilov Kaganovich Zhdanov Molotov
Description: City of Leningrad. List of persons to be tried by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Union of the SSR. April 1937. Approving signatures: Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich, Andrei Zhdanov, Vyacheslav Molotov. The first page of a typical trial (de facto execution) list from the time of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union. This particular list, compiled by Senior Major of State Security Gendin, Deputy Chief of the 4th Department of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD, itself contains 145 names in the first category (to be executed by firing squad), 50 names in the second category (to be imprisoned for 10 years) and one name in the third category (to be imprisoned for 5 to 8 years). Stored in the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (АП РФ, оп.24, дело 409, лист 54).
Title: Great Purge Stalin Voroshilov Kaganovich Zhdanov Molotov
Credit: http://stalin.memo.ru/spiski/pg01054p.htm
Author: Soviet government
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