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Chapter Forty
The Kremlin/December 4
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Comrade Stalin,
I am sending for your approval four lists of people to be tried by the Military Collegium:
List No. 1 (General)
List No. 2 (Former military personnel)
List No. 3 (Former personnel of the NKVD)
List No. 4 (Wives of enemies of the people)
I request sanction to convict all in the first degree (death by shooting).
YEZHOV, PURGE COMMISSIONER, 1937
Ivan Yulin, dressed in full security forces uniform and wearing all his old army and political medals, paused before the narrow pine door of the President's Kremlin retreat, the small office built for Boris Yeltsin facing the inner Kremlin garden during Yeltsin's tenure. Cherny, as Yulin well knew, was not self-indulgent. In fact, he was troubled when circumstances

 
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