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I mean, some was paranoia and people getting caught in the witchhunt (Stalin, Beria, and Yezhov all admitted this in private correspondence), some was actual treason, quite a bit was German intelligence having completely hacked the NKVD.
Libs think that a Socialist revolution in a country dominated by the Russian Orthodox Church and literal monarchists running Pogroms for Jewish people wouldn't have a massive and ongoing counter-revolution for decades.
Liberals unironically think that the Whites and the Nazis phased out of existence after their armies scattered. No object permanence.
I mean, some was paranoia and people getting caught in the witchhunt (Stalin, Beria, and Yezhov all admitted this in private correspondence), some was actual treason, quite a bit was German intelligence having completely hacked the NKVD.
Libs think that a Socialist revolution in a country dominated by the Russian Orthodox Church and literal monarchists running Pogroms for Jewish people wouldn't have a massive and ongoing counter-revolution for decades.
Liberals unironically think that the Whites and the Nazis phased out of existence after their armies scattered. No object permanence.