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1. Joseph Stalin

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   The period between 1934 and 1939 witnessed the intensification of political repression, known retrospectively as the [Great Purge](/entries/great-purge/}. This campaign systematically targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Old Bolsheviks, military leaders, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens.
   State security agencies, evolving through bodies like the OGPU and NKVD, became instruments of mass surveillance and terror. Stalin viewed internal dissent as the ultimate threat to the stability of the state apparatus he controlled [3]. The Purges involved show trials—publicly broadcast ju…