STALIN’s written permission for the Krasnoyarsk Region (Siberia) to carry out over six thousand additional “1st category arrests” (executions). Instruction in pencil on a small, plain slip of paper [R 31 December 1938]. One page.

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Permit Krasnoyarsk Region

6,600 additional ‘1st category’ arrests.

For:

Stalin, I.V.

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NOTES

This instruction came two months after the Great Terror had ended. NKVD chief Yezhov had himself been arrested on 25 November 1938.

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General

• 1. Notes and additions by translator and editor are bracketed, thus [ ];
• 2. Text added by hand is indicated in italic script;
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Translation and annotation, John Crowfoot

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