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[[File:Stalin show trial.jpg|right|300|thumb|'''Stalinist show trials'''. Top leaders were executed. Millions of ordinary people or those unemployed were sent to [[gulag]]s.]]
The '''Great Purge''', also known as the '''Moscow show trials''', began in [[Moscow]] on 15 August 1936 with the trial of 'the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre'.<ref>Isaac Deutscher, ''The Great Purges'', edited by Tamara Deutscher (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1984), p. 72.</ref> Besides vengeance and elimination of the opposition, the show trials were intended to intimidate anyone who dared to challenge the [[Leftist]] [[Deep state]].
The '''Great Purge''', also known as the '''Moscow show trials''', began in [[Moscow]] on 15 August 1936 with the trial of 'the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre'.<ref>Isaac Deutscher, ''The Great Purges'', edited by Tamara Deutscher (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1984), p. 72.</ref> Besides vengeance and elimination of the opposition, the show trials were intended to intimidate anyone who dared to challenge the [[Leftist]] [[Deep state]].