Mass Operations of The NKVD - Rollback

Rollback

On November 17, 1938 a joint decree of Sovnarkom USSR and Central Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the subsequent order of the NKVD undersigned by Lavrentiy Beria cancelled most of NKVD orders of this type (but not all, see, e.g., NKVD Order no. 00689) and suspended implementation of death sentences, signifying the end of the Great Purge ("Yezhovshchina").