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The infamous show trials of former leaders of the Soviet Union occurred during this period; many were accused of working with [[Trotsky]] or of sabotaging the Soviet Union. Stalin also eviscerated the high command of the [[Red Army]], killing 90% of the senior leadership. This would have disastrous consequences for the USSR in 1941 when Germany invaded the country. Those responsible for the apparatus of state oppression were not spared, either: of the NKVD's 809 high officials, only 43 lived through the purges. According to KGB defector [[Alexander Orlov]], more than 3,000 NKVD officers were shot in 1937 alone. <ref>Alexander Orlov, ''The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes'', (New York: Random House, 1952), p. 216.</ref>
The infamous show trials of former leaders of the Soviet Union occurred during this period; many were accused of working with [[Trotsky]] or of sabotaging the Soviet Union. Stalin also eviscerated the high command of the [[Red Army]], killing 90% of the senior leadership. This would have disastrous consequences for the USSR in 1941 when Germany invaded the country. Those responsible for the apparatus of state oppression were not spared, either: of the NKVD's 809 high officials, only 43 lived through the purges. According to KGB defector [[Alexander Orlov]], more than 3,000 NKVD officers were shot in 1937 alone. <ref>Alexander Orlov, ''The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes'', (New York: Random House, 1952), p. 216.</ref>
The leadership of the communist party was persecuted as well. For example, in 1934 130 members of the 139-member Central Committee were arrested. The Terror forever made Soviets afraid to speak out against the government, and also made sure that no one but Stalin could ever rule the Soviet Union as effectively.
The leadership of the communist party was persecuted as well. For example, in 1934 130 members of the 139-member Central Committee were arrested. The Terror forever made Soviets afraid to speak out against the government, and also made sure that no one but Stalin could ever rule the Soviet Union as effectively.
==Propaganda in the United States==
[[Mary Van Kleeck]] in the [[Institute for Pacific Relations]] journal, ''Pacific Affairs'' espoused the official Soviet version of the [[Stalinist]] [[terror]]. [[KGB]] Operative [[Owen Lattimore]] defended the [[show trial]]s in Moscow in the same publication as "an evidence of democracy."<ref>''Pacific Affairs'', September, 1938.</ref>
==References==
==References==