Martin Antonenko
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"One man, one problem. No man, no problem!"
On March 2, 1938, the so-called "Third Show Trial" against the so-called "Trotskyists", real or supposed friends of Lev Trotsky, who lived in exile in Mexico...
...which Stalin will have murdered there in August 1940 by a hit squad begins in the columned hall of the trade union building in Moscow...
And "purely coincidentally" most of the accused are all "old-Bolsheviks" at the same time, that is, Lenin's confidants and comrades-in-arms.
In the "First Show Trial" from August 19 to 24, 1936, the most well-known old Bolsheviks were sentenced to death and executed:
Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Ivan Smirnov, Sergei Mrachkovsky and 12 other senior party members.
From January 23 to 30, 1937, the "second show trial" took place:
Georgy Pyatakov, Karl Radek, Grigory Sokolnikov, Nikolai Muralov, Leonid Serebryakov and 12 other members of the Pertei were sentenced: Radek (who had already traveled with Lenin on the famous sealed train!) and Sokolnikov got 25 years in labor camps, all the others were sentenced immediately shot during the process.
Radek and Sokolnikov were murdered in the camp in 1939 - allegedly by fellow inmates - very likely on Stalin's orders.
This was followed by the so-called "Secret Military Trial" in June 1937 against Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other Red Army commanders. All were sentenced to death and shot.
The photo shows Tukhachevsky during the sentencing. It's the last picture of him...:
And now - on March 2, 1938 - the "Third Show Trial"...:
In the dock sit Alexei Rykov...
... Nikolai Bucharin...
...Nikolaj Krestinski...
...Christian Rakowski...
...Wladimir Iwanow...
... und 15 weitere Funktionäre.
And because Stalin must also have had a bizarre kind of cruel humor, the deserving old Bolsheviks are given yet another accused:
The recently deposed NKVD chief Genrich Yagoda...
...who, in the first three trials, ensured that false "confessions" were extracted from the accused under torture, which they then - again under torture - had to memorize and present in court.
After the trials, Yagoda oversaw the executions that followed - and now he's getting to know his system, which Solzhenitsyn called "the conveyor belt," from the other side.
From the outside, this procedure is also formally correct. Foreign western observers are admitted and are impressed.
They fail to see that absurd accusations, grotesque confessions, ludicrous self-recriminations are a means to an end for Stalin:
It is not enough for him to kill the old legendary revolution heroes. They must first be systematically morally, politically and ideologically destroyed in public.
On March 13, 1938 there will be another death sentence, which will then be carried out immediately!
In this picture you can see Nikolai Bukharin in the middle and Alexey Rykov (in the coat) on the far left, who after their death sentences are led out of the hall to the execution, which will take place in the basement of the building by a shot in the neck...:
And with that, Leni's old guard is wiped out - Stalin is the sole ruler!
Until then, Stalin's "purges" had been directed almost exclusively against party members!
At the time, a macabre joke was circulating in Moscow:
At five o'clock in the morning (that was the time when state security officers usually made arrests), a family in a Moscow block of flats was awakened by a loud banging on the door.
From outside the call rings out: "Open up citizens! NKVD!"
The father of the family, awakened in this way, sat up in bed, half asleep, and called back: "Comrades, you made the wrong entrance! The communist lives opposite!"
The "Great Terror" will soon begin, a time which in Russia is also called the "Yeshovchina" (after the new NKVD boss Nikolay Yeschow, also called the "bloody dwarf" because of his stature)...:
The bloody "Yeshovchina" can (and will!) fall victim to anyone without discrimination! Then people will stop laughing...
Among them will be Yezhov himself! When he was no longer needed after the end of the "Great Terror", he too was shot in the neck - as an "English spy" on February 4, 1940. Sometimes - rarely enough! - the history is fair too!
In photos (compare with the picture above) it just disappears...
As the "Father of the Nations" once said...:
"One man, one problem. No man, no problem!"
https://figure-mad.com/smf2/index.php?action=reporttm;topic=785.24;msg=136173
On March 2, 1938, the so-called "Third Show Trial" against the so-called "Trotskyists", real or supposed friends of Lev Trotsky, who lived in exile in Mexico...
...which Stalin will have murdered there in August 1940 by a hit squad begins in the columned hall of the trade union building in Moscow...
And "purely coincidentally" most of the accused are all "old-Bolsheviks" at the same time, that is, Lenin's confidants and comrades-in-arms.
In the "First Show Trial" from August 19 to 24, 1936, the most well-known old Bolsheviks were sentenced to death and executed:
Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Ivan Smirnov, Sergei Mrachkovsky and 12 other senior party members.
From January 23 to 30, 1937, the "second show trial" took place:
Georgy Pyatakov, Karl Radek, Grigory Sokolnikov, Nikolai Muralov, Leonid Serebryakov and 12 other members of the Pertei were sentenced: Radek (who had already traveled with Lenin on the famous sealed train!) and Sokolnikov got 25 years in labor camps, all the others were sentenced immediately shot during the process.
Radek and Sokolnikov were murdered in the camp in 1939 - allegedly by fellow inmates - very likely on Stalin's orders.
This was followed by the so-called "Secret Military Trial" in June 1937 against Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other Red Army commanders. All were sentenced to death and shot.
The photo shows Tukhachevsky during the sentencing. It's the last picture of him...:
And now - on March 2, 1938 - the "Third Show Trial"...:
In the dock sit Alexei Rykov...
... Nikolai Bucharin...
...Nikolaj Krestinski...
...Christian Rakowski...
...Wladimir Iwanow...
... und 15 weitere Funktionäre.
And because Stalin must also have had a bizarre kind of cruel humor, the deserving old Bolsheviks are given yet another accused:
The recently deposed NKVD chief Genrich Yagoda...
...who, in the first three trials, ensured that false "confessions" were extracted from the accused under torture, which they then - again under torture - had to memorize and present in court.
After the trials, Yagoda oversaw the executions that followed - and now he's getting to know his system, which Solzhenitsyn called "the conveyor belt," from the other side.
From the outside, this procedure is also formally correct. Foreign western observers are admitted and are impressed.
They fail to see that absurd accusations, grotesque confessions, ludicrous self-recriminations are a means to an end for Stalin:
It is not enough for him to kill the old legendary revolution heroes. They must first be systematically morally, politically and ideologically destroyed in public.
On March 13, 1938 there will be another death sentence, which will then be carried out immediately!
In this picture you can see Nikolai Bukharin in the middle and Alexey Rykov (in the coat) on the far left, who after their death sentences are led out of the hall to the execution, which will take place in the basement of the building by a shot in the neck...:
And with that, Leni's old guard is wiped out - Stalin is the sole ruler!
Until then, Stalin's "purges" had been directed almost exclusively against party members!
At the time, a macabre joke was circulating in Moscow:
At five o'clock in the morning (that was the time when state security officers usually made arrests), a family in a Moscow block of flats was awakened by a loud banging on the door.
From outside the call rings out: "Open up citizens! NKVD!"
The father of the family, awakened in this way, sat up in bed, half asleep, and called back: "Comrades, you made the wrong entrance! The communist lives opposite!"
The "Great Terror" will soon begin, a time which in Russia is also called the "Yeshovchina" (after the new NKVD boss Nikolay Yeschow, also called the "bloody dwarf" because of his stature)...:
The bloody "Yeshovchina" can (and will!) fall victim to anyone without discrimination! Then people will stop laughing...
Among them will be Yezhov himself! When he was no longer needed after the end of the "Great Terror", he too was shot in the neck - as an "English spy" on February 4, 1940. Sometimes - rarely enough! - the history is fair too!
In photos (compare with the picture above) it just disappears...
As the "Father of the Nations" once said...:
"One man, one problem. No man, no problem!"
https://figure-mad.com/smf2/index.php?action=reporttm;topic=785.24;msg=136173
