"Shoot in the order of administrative business"
Stalin's secret telegram, with which a large terror began Kolyma. Gulag. Dalstroy. Photo: Archive On July 2, 1937, Stalin sent a secret telegram to the secretaries of the regional committees, regional committees and the Central Committee of the National Party. It was with her that what was called in us the great terror of 1937-1938. For some time, only these dates were limited to our ideas about what happened in the country. We will reproduce this telegram today.