Mass operations of the NKVD
| Repression in the Soviet Union |
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| Economic repression |
| Political repression |
| Ideological repression |
| Ethnic repression |
Mass operations of the NKVD[1] were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people. As a rule, they were carried out according to the corresponding order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov.
- Ex-kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements
- Traitor of Motherland Family Members
- Kharbin operation of the NKVD
National operations of the NKVD
The operations of this type in this period targeted "foreign" ethnicities (ethnicities with cross-border ties to foreign nation-states), unlike nationally-targeted repressions during World War II.
- German operation of the NKVD
- Polish operation of the NKVD
- Romanian operation of the NKVD
- Estonian operation of the NKVD
- Finnish operation of the NKVD
- Latvian operation of the NKVD
- Ukrainian operation of the NKVD
- Korean operation of the NKVD
- Greek Operation of NKVD
Rollback
On November 17, 1938 a joint decree No. 81 of Sovnarkom USSR and Central Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union Decree about Arrests, Prosecutor Supervision and Course of Investigation and the subsequent order of the NKVD undersigned by Lavrentiy Beria cancelled most of NKVD orders of mass type (but not all, see, e.g., NKVD Order no. 00689) and suspended implementation of death sentences, signifying the end of the Great Purge ("Yezhovshchina").
References
- ↑ Vadim Rogovin "The Party of the Executed" (1997) ISBN 5-85272-026-7, Chapter 1: "Mass Operations" (Russian)