 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kunyange zvakadaro, muitiro wokusungwa kwavazhinji nokudzingwa wakapfuurira kutozosvikira parufu rwaStalin muna 1953. Kuurawa kwezvematongerwe enyika kwakapfuurirawo, asi, kunze kweKatyn nedzimwe njodzi dzeNKVD mukati meHondo Yenyika II, pamwero muduku zvikuru. Muenzaniso wakakurumbira ndoweUsiku hweVanyanduri Vakaurayiwa, umo vanyori vechiYiddish gumi nevatatu vakakurumbira vakaurayiwa musi wa12 Nyamavhuvhu 1952. Vanyori venhau dzakaitika vakadai saMichael Parrish vakataura kuti apo Kutyisa Kukuru kwakaguma muna 1938, kutyisa kuduku kwakaramba kuripo muma1940. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mukuru wemauto eSoviet uyo akava musungwa kwemakore gumi muhurongwa hweGulag anopa mu The Gulag Archipelago maonero akazara kwazvo enguva ye zvose zveLeninist neStalinist purges 19181956, umo 19361938 purge ingangodaro yakangoita iyo yakawana kutarisisa kukuru kubva kuvanhu vari muchinzvimbo chekunyora kukura kwayo kwevazukuru -the intelligentsia nekuvanongedza zvakananga, nepo mamwe mafungu ekuyerera kuri kuenderera mberi kwekuchenesa, senge Chirongwa chekutanga chemakore mashanu cha19281933s kuunganidzwa uye deculakization, yaive yakakura uye isina kururamisira asi yakabudirira zvikuru kumedzwa mukukanganwa mukuyeuka kwevanhu kupona veruzhinji veSoviet. Somuenzaniso, mune imwe ndima yakadaro Solzhenitsyn anotaura nezvegore ra1938 uye anotaura kuti muna 1948 mune dzimwe nzira zvakanga zvisina nani. 