Mass operations of the NKVD

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Mass operations of the NKVD^[1] were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people. As a rule, they were carried out according to the corresponding order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov.

• Ex-kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements
  • NKVD Order no. 00447
• Traitor of Motherland Family Members
  • NKVD Order no. 00486
• Kharbin operation of the NKVD
  • NKVD Order no. 00593

[edit] National operations of the NKVD

The operations of this type in this period targeted "foreign" ethnicities (ethnicities with cross-border ties to foreign nation-states), unlike nationally-targeted repressions in the time frame of World War II.

• German operation of the NKVD
  • NKVD Order № 00439
• Polish operation of the NKVD
  • NKVD Order № 00485
• Romanian operation of the NKVD
• Finnish operation of the NKVD
• Latvian operation of the NKVD
• Korean operation of the NKVD

[edit] Rollback

On November 17, 1938 a joint decree of Sovnarkom USSR and Central Committee of VKP(b) and the subsequent order of the NKVD undersigned by Beria cancelled most of NKVD orders of this type (but not all, see, e.g., NKVD Order no. 00689) and suspended implementation of death sentences, signifying the end of the Great Purge ("Yezhovshchina").

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