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Every purge (and not just in Soviet history) has such subtexts, and they can also be very different from context to context. <br>
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In any case, though Politburo or the General Secretary Stalin did not themselves look into or had much of a say regarding most of the names on the execution lists, what they initiated and informed was exactly this subtext, the hidden logic of the proceedings, complete with a very specific, if counterintuitive, prime target. <br>
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Which group or demographic did they target? Well, in '37/'38's bloodiest and most inhumane (and exponentially so) of all the Stalinist purges, the prime target were former and current Leftist-leaning intellectuals/activists. <br>
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It seems that following many
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What drew them to mark many of those once closest to them with those monstrous designator tags of an ultimate superfluousness, rendering them primed for torrents of every kind of bewilderingly libelous improvisations (meaning, accusations) from all sides?! <br>
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And so many were marked from the get-go for elimination... And for the large part, annihilated in the purges that year was anyone who had been in any way politically active in the late 1910s and early 1920s, mainly lifelong Bolsheviks. Other groups were swept up into the grinder alongside them, but more often than not by proxy/inertia. <br>
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In effect, in 1937 & 1938 there took place in the USSR a veiled (and to this day, mis-categorized) anti-Communist genocide orchestrated by Communists, and which resulted in the violent elimination of 90% of surviving Communists & Socialists active before and during the Revolution, and/or influential in the 1920s. <br>
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Every purge (and not just in Soviet history) has such subtexts, and they can also be very different from context to context. <br>
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In any case, though Politburo or the General Secretary Stalin did not themselves look into or had much of a say regarding most of the names on the execution lists, what they initiated and informed was exactly this subtext, the hidden logic of the proceedings, complete with a very specific, if counterintuitive, prime target. <br>
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Which group or demographic did they target? Well, in '37/'38's bloodiest and most inhumane (and exponentially so) of all the Stalinist purges, the prime target were former and current Leftist-leaning intellectuals/activists. <br>
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It seems that following many prefigurations, the Stalinist machine had finally and collectively burst full wild under the long dialectic strain of hope and paranoia into a murderous and self-destructive psychosis... <br>
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What drew them to mark many of those once closest to them with those monstrous designator tags of an ultimate superfluousness, rendering them primed for torrents of every kind of bewilderingly libelous improvisations (meaning, accusations) from all sides?! <br>
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And so many were marked from the get-go for elimination... And for the large part, annihilated in the purges that year was anyone who had been in any way politically active in the late 1910s and early 1920s, mainly lifelong Bolsheviks. Other groups were swept up into the grinder alongside them, but more often than not by proxy/inertia. <br>
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In effect, in 1937 & 1938 there took place in the USSR a veiled (and to this day, mis-categorized) anti-Communist genocide orchestrated by Communists, and which resulted in the violent elimination of 90% of surviving Communists & Socialists active before and during the Revolution, and/or influential in the 1920s. <br>
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