What tactic did Joseph Stalin use to intimidate and punish his political opponents in the Soviet Union?

1 Answer
Jun 15, 2017

Massive executions and deportations

Explanation:

Stalin had more than one million people executed during his reign and over 20 million people were deported. The intimidation in the Soviet Union was based on repression on a very large scale. Gulags in Siberia is where opponents were deported and sometimes died.