Great Purges and Show Trials
- Stalin feared being overthrown or having a counter-revolution
- he formed a secret police called the NKVD (like FBI) to remove threats
- Old heroes of the revolution or anyone with popular support charged with treason (seen as threats)
- 1 in 5 officers of the army executed
- often put on trial "show trials" forced to admit they had done it (under duress)
NKVD
Fact: The Moscow Trials included the Trial of the Sixteen, the Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Centre, and the Trial of the Twenty-One.
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If Stalin hadn't of created the NKVD would he have been overthrown?
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Summary: Since Stalin feared of being overthrown he created a secret police called the NKVD.
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