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Events on Friday 30 July 1937 1
1937NKVD Order No. 00447Start of the mass operations of the Great TerrorThe NKVD issued Order No. 00447, setting regional quotas for the execution or imprisonment of so-called anti-Soviet elements. The mass operations it began led to hundreds of thousands of executions over the following sixteen months.