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
    • 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'

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