Re : "The single most damning category is the documents Stalin personally signed. The rasstrel'nye spiski—the shooting lists—are albums of names compiled by the NKVD and sent to the Politburo for pre-approval of sentence before any trial occurred. There are around 380 of them, carrying roughly 44,000 names; Stalin signed about 357, and Molotov a comparable number, with Kaganovich, Voroshilov, and Zhdanov close behind."
Masha Gessen detailed this in-The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia GRIEF, ARRESTED | 143 The following attachments were removed because the message exceeded 15MB. Attachments are automatically removed for messages larger than 15MB to ensure delivery. IMG_3163.jpeg: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/sattachment/2589662733129849312/269934208/0/91d481360d121990e8c0424ccbfc0761038d32b2f41bc7b1b0a7fc4bad1dcad9 IMG_3162.jpeg: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/sattachment/3476099955400255259/269934208/1/a09cd4af0bbf7059c6109c1519353b40debf3fd86cd903f985e343a3ae39041a IMG_3164.jpeg: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/sattachment/6251296648946802218/269934208/2/b7c636d9e8ca64bf38ee80a3c8382be3262ce77cad9c412140fef788d0d166f3 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#43411): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43411 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/121137801/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
