Mass operations of the NKVD
Mass repression in the Soviet Union |
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Economic repression |
Political repression |
Ideological repression |
Ethnic repression |
Mass operations of the NKVD[1] were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people. As a rule, they were carried out according to the corresponding order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov.
National operations of the NKVD
The operations of this type in this period targeted "foreign" ethnicities (ethnicities with cross-border ties to foreign nation-states), unlike nationally targeted repressions during World War II.
- Polish Operation of the NKVD ~111,091 killed[4]
- German Operation of the NKVD ~41,898 killed[5]
- Greek Operation of NKVD ~20,000[6]—50,000 [7]
- Latvian Operation of the NKVD
- Korean Operation of the NKVD ~1/4 of the entire Soviet Korean population killed[8]
- Romanian Operation of the NKVD
- Estonian Operation of the NKVD
- Finnish Operation of the NKVD
Rollback
On November 17, 1938 a joint decree No. 81 of Sovnarkom USSR and Central Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union Decree about Arrests, Prosecutor Supervision and Course of Investigation and the subsequent order of the NKVD undersigned by Lavrentiy Beria cancelled most of NKVD orders of mass type (but not all, see, e.g., NKVD Order no. 00689) and suspended implementation of death sentences, signifying the end of the Great Purge ("Yezhovshchina").
References
- ↑ Vadim Rogovin "The Party of the Executed" (1997) ISBN 5-85272-026-7, Chapter 1: "Mass Operations" (in Russian)
- ↑ Snyder, Timothy (2012). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. p. 81. ISBN 978-0465002399.
- ↑ "Ukraine: Secret service publishes Stalin files".
- ↑ Eric J. Schmaltz. "Soviet "Paradise" Revisited: Genocide, Dissent, Memory and Denial" (PDF). GRHS Heritage Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 18, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ↑ Н.Охотин, А.Рогинский, Москва. Из истории "немецкой операции" НКВД 1937-1938 гг.Chapter 2
- ↑ Will Englund (November 12, 2012). "Greeks of the steppe". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ↑ Agtzidis 1991, p. 372—382.
- ↑ Tom K. Wong. Front CoveRights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control. Stanford University Press. p. 68.