"Documenatation please"
With respect to the following paragraph you repeatedly removed certain materials  with the comment, "I want documentation of those claims, if you please." I have now consulted The Great Terror: A Reassessement , a  standard reference work and after a little searching found passages which support the generally accepted information which you deleted. See:

The '''Great Purge''' is the name given to the events of the late [[1930s]] in the [[Soviet Union]], when millions of people were arrested, about one million executed, and an estimated 12 million to sent to labour camps.  According to [[On the Personality Cult and its Consequences|Nikita Khrushchev]] a significant part of the accusations were based on forced [[confession]]s and on loose interpretations of vague articles of [[Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)]], which dealt with counter-revolutionary crimes. Due legal deliberation was largely replaced with express trials by [[NKVD troika]]s.  The purge targeted all categories of the society: members of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]], the government, the armed forces and the intelligentsia, as well as "anti-Soviet elements" among peasants ([[kulak]]s), in industry, and in transport. The height of the purge occurred while the Soviet secret police (the [[NKVD]]) was headed by [[Nikolai Yezhov]], from September [[1936]] to August [[1938]]; this period is often referred to as the '''Yezhovschina''' ("Yezhov storm"). However, the purge was carried out on the orders of Stalin himself.

It is rather obvious that you do not have a copy of this standard reference work available or choose not to refer to it. Furthermore you seem to be unfamiliar with generally accepted knowledge with respect to this area. I believe it is a reasonable expectation that you familiarize yourself with the subjects you chose to edit on and be able to consult standard reference works and understand them. Could you please remedy this situation. As it stands now you are wasting everyone's time. Asking that generally accepted information be extensively documented while simulaneously espousing information and positions that can only be referenced through fringe sources.  16:55, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)