Stalin's Involvement
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In the period from 1936 to 1938 occurred one greatest political purges in Russian history, known as the Moscow Trials.
In his video address in 1936, just four years before his own death, Trotsky had pointed the finger at Stalin as the soul organizer of a mass conspiracy to murder and destroy all those who opposed him. (see podcast) For decades since most historians too have condemned Stalin as having manufactured the murder of his closest political rivals to extend his own power and secure his authority as the Supreme Leader of the Soviet People. Yet how far has this view been correct? |