Matvei Bronstein: Theorical physicist. Pioneer of quantum gravity. Arrested, accused of fictional “terroristic” activity and shot in 1938
Lev Shubnikov: Experimental physicist. Accused on false charges. Executed
Adrian Piotrovsky: Russian dramaturge. Accused on false charges of treason. Executed.
Nikolai Bukharin: Leader of the Communist revolution. Member of the Politburo. Falsely accused of treason. Executed.
General Alexander Egorov: Marshal of the Soviet Union. Commander of the Red Army Southern Front. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Arrested, accused on false charges, executed.
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky Supreme Marshal of the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the Red Napoleon. Arrested, accused on fake charges. Executed.
Grigory Zinoviev: Chairman of the Communist International Movement. Member of the Soviet Politburo. Accused of treason and executed.
Even the secret police themselves were not safe:
Genrikh Yagoda : Right-hand of Joseph Stalin. Head of the NKD Secret Police. He spied on everyone in Russia and jailed thousands of innocents. Yagoda was arrested and executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda
Nikolai Yezhov : Appointed head of the NKD Secret Police after the death of Yagoda. Arrested on fake charges, executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov
Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 600 000 people were killed and over 100 000 people were deported to Gulags in Siberia.
Today, Russian schools no longer teach what Joseph Stalin did. Many young russians actually believe that Stalin was a great patriot.
This is part of an effort by Vladimir Putin to rehabilitate him:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/21/stalin-is-making-a-comeback-in-russia-heres-why-a89155
Title does not match Wikipedia content whatsoever. Obvious NATO propaganda is obvious.
Not matching whatsoever is a stretch. I’ll grant you that the title might be a bit sensationalized, but the only potentially erroneous aspects are the title stating it was random and the wording creating the implication that Stalin might have done all the killing himself. None of which reduces that it was an objectively bad time in which many people were unjustly killed.
What are your thoughts on Stalin’s and the government’s action during the time period described?
Here is a great example. I clicked one random Wikipedia page in the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Shubnikov
Scroll down to the section Arrest and Death.
After every link which is supposed to provide evidence for the events, it links a questionable source and says, better source needed.
I do not have any expertise of Stalin and what happened, but I am absolutely not going to trust a Wikipedia page with links to self proclaimed questionable sources to provide a link in a narrative which in all likelyhood is backed up with questionable sources links in a circular reference.