Great Terror Scared the Bejesus Out of the Nazis

The Great Terror (Great Purge) conducted by Stalin in 1937-38 had two fundamental objectives: (1) eliminate the remaining political enemies and opponents of Stalin – real or imaginary; and (2) transform just about every Soviet citizen of the USSR of an obedient slave of “Red Emperor” – Joseph Stalin.

The first objective was identical to Hitler’s objective for the Night of the Long Times… only Stalin killed 10,000 times more (1 million versus 100). The second one had everything to do with Stalin’s mentality and the essence of his regime.

Contrary to what the Nazis deeply, passionately (and erroneously) believed, there was nothing Jewish in Stalin’s mentality – or in his regime. In reality, Stalin (who, unlike Hitler, had absolute power in the USSR) was a quintessential Asian despot – the Bolshevist reincarnation of Tamerlane (Timur) – a 14th century ruler of Timurid Empire that he founded. Tamerlane and his totalitarian state (where everyone was an obedient slave of Amir) became role models for Joseph Stalin.

Great Purge de-facto commenced in December of 1934 – right after the murder in Leningrad of Sergei Kirov – the only friend of Stalin. Ironically, it had nothing to do with politics – Kirov was murdered by jealous husband of one of his mistresses.

Great Terror escalated to warp speed in late July of 1937 and continued until November of next year (when things spiraled out of control and Stalin had to stop his Great Purge). The latter decimated (literally) the Bolshevist Party, the Soviet government, the Red Army, security services, etc. killing up to 1.2 million.

Actually, the Great Terror hit Soviet Jews pretty hard – they were ruthlessly purged out of just about all positions of power in the Soviet Union. Proving beyond the reasonable doubt that Stalin’s Soviet Union was anything but Jewish.

However, it also proved beyond the reasonable doubt that the Bolshevist Soviet Union (and its “Red Emperor” personally) were, indeed, existential threats to Germany, Europe and the whole human civilization (Stalin was rightfully expected to treat other nations no better than he treated his own during the Great Purge).

So, Adolf Hitler had no other choice but to radically increase his efforts to build gigantic military-industrial complex of his own. Making sure that it can fight and win the existential war with the Soviet Union… that the Nazis still erroneously considered “Judeo-Bolshevist”.

Consequently, Stalin’s Great Purge became a major step on the Road to Holocaust – and a heavy slab in the slab stack that six years later triggered the “Holocaust Avalanche” that killed four million Jews.