Paweł Łepkowski: Stalinist absolute terror

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At the beginning of July 1941, the Russians thought that in the face of the unstoppable advance of German troops into the depths of the USSR, the Stalinist government would refrain from repressive actions against its own citizens. Nothing could be further from the truth. panic not only did not decrease, but actually intensified against all minorities surviving in the USSR.