2 1937 newspapers THE GREAT PURGE by JOSEF STALIN -8 RUSSIA ARMY OFFICERS KILLED

Description: 2 1937 newspapers 8 RUSSIAN ARMY officers are KILLED during THE GREAT PURGE ordered by dictator JOSEF STALIN 2 1937 newspapers RUSSIAN ARMY leaders KILLED in THE "GREAT PURGE" by Russia's dictator JOSEF STALIN - inv # 9P-413 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - Two (2) COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERs, the York Daily Dispatch (PA) dated June 11 and 14, 1937. These 2 original newspapers contain prominent front page headings and long reports of "show trials and executions" of high ranking Russian Army leaders by dictator JOSEF STALIN during THE GREAT PURGE (aka THE "GREAT TERROR") in RUSSIA. The Great Purge or the Great Terror was Joseph Stalin's campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union that occurred from 1936 to 1938. It involved large-scale repression of the peasantry; ethnic cleansing; purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, government officials, and the Red Army; widespread police surveillance, suspicion of saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries, imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. Historians estimate the total number of deaths due to Stalinist repression in 1937–38 to be between 950,000 and 1.2 million. The purge of the Red Army and Military Maritime Fleet removed three of five marshals (then equivalent to four-star generals), 13 of 15 army commanders (then equivalent to three-star generals), eight of nine admirals (the purge fell heavily on the Navy, who were suspected of exploiting their opportunities for foreign contacts), 50 of 57 army corps commanders, 154 out of 186 division commanders, 16 of 16 army commissars, and 25 of 28 army corps commissars. At first, it was thought 25–50% of Red Army officers had been purged; the true figure is now known to be in the area of 3.7–7.7%. This discrepancy was the result of a systematic underestimation of the true size of the Red Army officer corps, and it was overlooked that most of those purged were merely expelled from the Party. Thirty percent of officers purged in 1937–1939 were allowed to return to service. The purge of the army was claimed to be supported by German-forged documents (said to have been correspondence between Marshal Tukhachevsky and members of the German high command). The claim is unsupported by facts, as by the time the documents were supposedly created, two people from the eight in the Tukhachevsky group were already imprisoned, and by the time the document was said to reach Stalin the purging process was already underway. However the actual evidence introduced at trial was obtained from forced confessions. Very good condition. This listing includes the 2 complete entire original newspapers, NOT just a clipping or a page of them. STEPHEN A. 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