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Which Soviet Union leader began the Great Purge?

Retry Correct Incorrect Joseph Stalin held an office in the Soviet Union for 30 years. He began the Great Purge, an ethnic and political repression which imprisoned over a million people between 1934 and 1939.

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Which Soviet Union leader began the Great Purge?

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Joseph Stalin
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Vladmir Lenin