What happened during the Great Purge of World War 2?

Answer 1

The story of the purge is below. Stalin also purged out scientists and other people he considered too brilliant. They made him feel dumb. He also worried they would come up with an invention that would get rid of himself.

Joseph Stalin

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Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Georgian or Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Russian patronymic nomenclature; 18 December 1878 -- 5 March 1953) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.

Stalin launched a command economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans and launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization. The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine, such as the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932-1933, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor.

During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery; he extended it to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. Targets were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps or exiled. In the years following, millions of members of ethnic minorities were also deported.

Answer 2

In order to eliminate all competition, Stalin carried out a purge of the Red Army as well as a purge of the communist party in the 1930's. Stalin sent police throughout Russia to requisition food and put areas back under control.

Answer 3

the effect of the great purge was millions of soviets dead and everyone else was walking on egg shells.

Answer 4

Stalin created the great purge to scare soviet union citizens. who ever questioned government would be imprisoned