Who invented the "big terror." Analysis of state archives. Bushmitsky J. (memoirist)

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the memoirist’s book is devoted to the topic of Stalinist repressions of 1937-1938. The presence of photocopies of real archival documents allowed the author to restore the historical truth about one of the most conflicting periods of Soviet power. The author analyzes in detail the documents of the “Great Terror”, reports on the decisions of the Tribunals, notes to the Politburo and others. The professional gaze of the historian, the memoir, immediately determines the authenticity of the materials, commenting on the errors of falsifiers with irony.

Particular attention is paid to “the most terrible order Terror ” -the order of the People’s Commissar N. Yezhov No. 00447 on the creation of the shooting triples of the NKVD of the USSR. This document is devoted to the script of the series “Order” invented by the author, demonstrating all the absurdity of such an order.