Dealing with “Anti-Soviet Elements”. POLITBURO accepts NKVD request to increase quotas for 1st category (executions) and 2nd category (sent to camps) arrests in 22 Republics and Regions across the USSR [R: 31 January 1938, Pb 57-48]. 2 pp. * Great Terror: execution or the camps (31 Jan '38*, Pb 57/48) * ==================================== [page one of … Continue reading Great Terror (31 Jan ’38* Pb)
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. * Stalin, Siberian Executions (31 Dec '38*) * ======================= Permit Krasnoyarsk Region 6,600 additional ‘1st category’ arrests. For: Stalin, I.V. … Continue reading Stalin, Executions (31 Dec ’38*)
Letter from A. FRENKEL (Kuibyshev UNKVD) to NKVD chief YEZHOV: malfunctioning of special troika, unburied bodies of "Enemies of the People", and poor safety measures during interrogation [R: 31 October 1937]. 2 pp. ======================================= [page one of two] Comrade Yezhov! I consider it my duty to advise you of the following facts that have been made … Continue reading Kuibyshev NKVD shortcomings (31 Oct ’37*)
KGB REPORT (Semichastny; feature photo). Change in procedures for informing relatives about prisoners’ date of execution in the Stalin era [R: 25 December 1962, 3265-S], 4 pp. * Concealing Stalin-era execution dates (25 Dec '62*, 3265-S) * =================================== [page one of three; see page four] Top Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] of the … Continue reading Conceal execution dates (25 Dec ’62* S)
Encrypted telegram to STALIN and YEZHOV from YULY KAGANOVICH: a request to increase the quota for executions and arrests in the Gorky Region and extend the deadline until 20 March 1938 [R: 4 February 1938, No 95-III]. One page. * Great Terror in Gorky Region (4 Feb '38*, No 95/III) ============================= [page one of one] … Continue reading Gorky Region Great Terror (4 Feb ’38*)
