Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

First guy on the list:

Matvei Petrovich Bronstein was the son of a doctor and was of Jewish descent…

In August 1937, while he was living in his apartment at 38 Rubinstein Street, St. Petersburg, Bronstein was arrested after having had his legs broken by his captors as part of the Great Purge.

He was convicted by a list trial in February 1938 and, executed the same day in the basement of the Leningrad NKVD prison. The exact reason for his arrest remains unknown, and contrary to some claims, he was not related to Leon Trotsky.

Yeeeeeaaaaah I can see the “nazi” part but it’s the NKVD not the Jewish theoretical physicist.

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