| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1936/00/00 | Joseph Stalin authorizes the NKVD, the secret police, to imprison or murder government officials, Old Bolsheviks and leaders of the Red Army and military high command. | Kremlin, Moscow |
| 1937/00/00 | More than 700,000 people are accused of political crimes and are quickly executed by shooting or sent to the Gulag labor camps where the will die of starvation, disease and exposure. | |
| 1938/00/00 | Paul Robeson explains to his son Paul that the Great Purge was justified because the Soviets can not tolerate any dissent and "Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in a pursuit of a great and just course". | |
| 1938/00/00 | Joseph Stalin declares that the internal enemies had been removed, criticizes the NKVD for carrying out mass executions and executes Genrikh Yagoda and Nikolay Yezhov, who headed the NKVD. |
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