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Stalin’s Great Purge

Amid the tense atmosphere of the late 1930s, Stalin unleashed the Great Purge — a sweeping campaign of political repression ...
During Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's purges of the 1930s, more than 9,000 people were executed in the Sandarmokh forest in Russia's Karelia region, located near the Finnish border.
For the last three decades, Razumov has worked through archives to make public the names of those executed during Stalin's purges in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, which targeted suspected ...
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