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Hace 2 días · The Great Purge, or the Great Terror ( Russian: Большой террор, romanized : Bolshoy terror ), also known as the Year of '37 ( 37-й год, Tridtsat sedmoy god) and the Yezhovshchina ( Ежовщина, 'period of Yezhov ' Russian pronunciation: [ (j)ɪʐəfɕːɪnə] ), [8] was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin 's campaign to consolidate power over the Commu...
Hace 2 días · Andrei Vyshinsky, chief procurator of the Soviet Union, wrote a memorandum to NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov in 1938, during the Great Purge, which stated: Among the prisoners there are some so ragged and lice-ridden that they pose a sanitary danger to the rest.
Hace 3 días · In 1936, Nikolai Yezhov became head of the NKVD. Stalin orchestrated the arrest of opponents in the Communist Party as well as sitting members of the Central Committee: denounced as Western-backed mercenaries, many were imprisoned or exiled.
Hace 4 días · Nik Storonsky cofounded and runs U.K.-based financial services firm Revolut, which was valued by private investors at $33 billion in July 2021. In January 2023, Forbes estimated Revolut...
Hace 4 días · Propuesta por el astrofísico ruso Nikolái Kardashev en 1964, la escala de Kardashev clasifica las civilizaciones en tres tipos principales: Civilización Tipo I (Planetaria): Esta civilización puede utilizar toda la energía disponible en su planeta de origen.
Hace 2 días · Volodymyr Zelensky (born January 25, 1978, Kryvyy Rih, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now in Ukraine]) is a Ukrainian actor and comedian who was elected president of Ukraine in 2019. Although he was a political novice, Zelensky’s anti-corruption platform won him widespread support, and his significant online following translated into a solid electoral base.
Hace 2 días · Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( / ˈhaɪdrɪk / HY-drik; German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust . Heydrich was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD ).
