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The reforming of security organizations happens, along with adopting official plans to kill and purge elites.
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The purging of the elites began as well as the higher ups in power beginning to cut the heads off of the lower classes. The opposition of the "elites" start to become purged.
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The mass repressions against "kulaks," or "dangerous" minorities, military officers, and families of opposition leaders begins.
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The "Beria Thaw" begins which was the stopping of mass operations, the punishment of some organizers of mass repressions and the abolition of many organs.
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The German-Soviet Nonagression Pact is signed by a Nazi official and Stalin saying that there would be no military force between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. -
Following the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union enters the Second World War.