Matvei Bronstein: Theorical physicist. Pioneer of quantum gravity. Arrested, accused of fictional “terroristic” activity and shot in 1938
Lev Shubnikov: Experimental physicist. Accused on false charges. Executed
Adrian Piotrovsky: Russian dramaturge. Accused on false charges of treason. Executed.
Nikolai Bukharin: Leader of the Communist revolution. Member of the Politburo. Falsely accused of treason. Executed.
General Alexander Egorov: Marshal of the Soviet Union. Commander of the Red Army Southern Front. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Arrested, accused on false charges, executed.
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky Supreme Marshal of the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the Red Napoleon. Arrested, accused on fake charges. Executed.
Grigory Zinoviev: Chairman of the Communist International Movement. Member of the Soviet Politburo. Accused of treason and executed.
Even the secret police themselves were not safe:
Genrikh Yagoda : Right-hand of Joseph Stalin. Head of the NKD Secret Police. He spied on everyone in Russia and jailed thousands of innocents. Yagoda was arrested and executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda
Nikolai Yezhov : Appointed head of the NKD Secret Police after the death of Yagoda. Arrested on fake charges, executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov
Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 600 000 people were killed and over one million people were deported to Gulags in Siberia.
Thank you for the explanation! That does make sense if the distinction is made between just and unjust.
It does sound rather difficult to scale that to an area the size of a continent without a significant amount of vertical hierarchy, though.
Anarchist theory ensures power comes from the bottom up, instead from the top down. If a community wants to participate in a wider federation of other communities, they may elect delegates to perform duties on their behalf, but critically, they can be recalled at any time if they are unsatisfactory in their duties to the community. There’s also a strong emphasis on delegation, not representation. This ensures that if corruption does begin to occur, it can be eliminated quickly, and ultimately the power to do that lies with the people who would be most effected by it.
This can even be implemented militarily, as it was done during the Spanish Civil War to good effect.