HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Enemy At The Gates, No Freedom, Hector Barbossa
23 Feb 2017
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Police were told to execute death sentence immediately after it came down. Throughout 1935, arrests trials and deportations took place. Zenoviath put in prison for 10 years. 500,000 people sent off to prison/labour camps in 1935 alone. All of this is a warming up for the three great show trials between 1936 and. First of this, referred to as the trial of the sixteen known bolsheviks (trial of the left) Each of the 16 made a public confession to their accused crimes. Said they had secret meetings with trotsky agents, wanted to murder entire politburo. Set the stage for another show trial, in january of 1937. Officially, trial of anti-soviet troskyite centre (trial of seventeen) Chief defeendents radik and ??? (old bolsheviks) Confessed to working with german and japanese interests, helped trotsky turn over ukraine to germany at treaty of brest-livosk. 13 of 17 were executed, others disappeared into the gulag. February 1937, aftereffects started to be felt.
