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Great Purge. Great Purge. Part of the purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. People of Vinnytsia searching through the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943. Location. Soviet Union, East Turkestan, Mongolian People's Republic. Date. 1936–1938.
The Great Purge of 1936–1938 in the Soviet Union can be roughly divided into four periods: [1] October 1936 - February 1937. Reforming the security organizations, adopting official plans for purging the elites. March 1937 - June 1937. Purging the Elites; The higher powers then started to cut off heads of the poor.
On May 14, 2024, Lieutenant General, Head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Yuri Kuznetsov [2] was arrested. On May 17, 2024, the court arrested Major General, former commander of the 58th Army Ivan Popov [4] and faces up to 10 years in prison for embezzlement amounting to more than 100 million rubles. [1] On ...
Many residents and their families were detained during the Great Purge under Stalin in the late 1930s; to the extent that the building was dryly referred to as "The House of Preliminary Detention". (That is a play on the Russian initialism Допр, from the building's original name: Дом прави́тельства).
It’s a purge. The latest senior military man to be locked up is Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the army’s general staff and head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian ...
The trial was preceded by several purges of the Red Army. In the mid-1920s, Leon Trotsky was removed as Commissar of War, and his known supporters were expunged from the military. Former tsarist officers had been purged in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The latter purge was accompanied by the "exposure" of the "Former Officers Plot".
v. t. e. Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union ( Russian: "Чистка партийных рядов", chistka partiynykh ryadov, "cleansing of the party ranks") were Soviet political events, especially during the 1920s, [1] in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted by other members and the security ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has detained the deputy head of the army's general staff, Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, on suspicion of large-scale bribe-taking, Russian media reported on Thursday.