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Description: Top secret. List of the arrested at the NKVD. Approving resolution: Shoot all named in the list. Stalin. The first page of the list of 46 persons proposed by Lavrenty Beria for execution on January 29, 1942 (see Purge of the Red Army in 1941). All of them, including 17 Red Army Generals and one former People's Commissar (Minister), will be extrajudicially executed on February 23, 1942. Stored in the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (АП РФ. Ф.3. Оп.24. Д.378. Л.196–211.).
Title: Red Army purge 1941
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Author: Soviet government
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