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.

Josif Jughashvili was known as ‘Stalin’ (Man of Steel) from 1912 onwards.

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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;

Translation and annotation, John Crowfoot

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