When Stalin Was Murdering - and Ukraine Was a Special Target for Him

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In the Moscow House of Trade Unions 90 years ago, on August 19, 1936, the curtain rose on one of the bloodiest performances of the 20th century. The first major Moscow trial of the so-called Trotskyist-Zinovievist center began. 16 former Bolshevik leaders, led by Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Ivan Smirnov, sat in the dock.