Moscow show trials
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- Moscow show trials
- Show Trials
- Trial of the Sixteen, 1936
- Zinoviev and Kamenev
- Charged with murder of Kirov
- Both executed
- Confessed believing that Stalin would pardon them
- Trial of the Seventeen, 1937
- Trotsky
- Charged with same crimes as Zin and Kam
- Confessed under torture
- Majority were executed
- Trotsky sentenced to death but in exile so couldnt be carried out
- Trial of the Twenty-One, 1938
- Bukharin and Yagoda
- Charged with same crimes as others
- Bukharin charged with murder of Lenin
- Stalin threatened to execute Bukh's wife and children if he didnt confess
- All were executed following trial
- Trial of the Sixteen, 1936
- The secret trial, 1937
- Trial of eight generals kept secret
- Accused of plotting against Stalin
- Confessed after brutal torture from NKVD
- 34,000 soldiers over the next 18 months purged
- Significance of show trials
- Removed Stalin's rivals
- Silenced people who knew about Lenin's Testament
- Removed those appointed by Lenin from power
- Acted as a form of 'propaganda'
- Show Trials
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