The Soviet Union and the Industrial Party Trials

In the late 19 twenties and early 19 thirties, every major power in the world had been sucker punched in the gut by the great depression. The message to the public was always the same, there were foreign powers hell bent on overthrowing the soviet union who suborned these inside wreckers and saboteurs. Confessions would be extracted by the use of torture and threats to family members. They then confessed their crimes in open court, and the sentences were a term in prison, but sometimes it was straight up execution. But none of this, the collectivization, the arrest the deportations, the labor camps, the absurd show trials, were the worst humanitarian disaster to