Curated category
Politicides
- Commissar OrderPlanning for Operation Barbarossa began in June 1940. Adolf Hitler started vague allusions to the operation during December 1940.
- Cultural RevolutionOn the 16th of May 1966, an expanded session of the Politburo convened in Beijing to discuss a document prepared with Mao Zedong's personal supervision.
- Great PurgeThe assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934 marked the beginning of a political purge that would consume millions.
- White Terror (Russia)Individual acts of violence against Bolshevik rule began by the end of 1917, but large-scale White Terror violence arguably started in early 1918.
- Night of the Long KnivesOn the 30th of January 1934, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany. This appointment did not grant Hitler absolute…
- Red TerrorThe Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets issued a decree on the 8th of November 1917 that abolished the death penalty.