Stalin Third Show Trial
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The Third Show Trial of 1938 involved 21 defendants, including Bukharin, Rykov, and Kretinsky, who were charged with spying, sabotage, and attempting to murder Stalin on instructions from Trotsky. Like in previous show trials, the defendants were tortured into making false confessions. Bukharin initially pleaded innocent but then guilty after his wife and newborn son's lives were threatened. All the accused were immediately executed after the trial, and Bukharin's wife spent 20 years in the Gulag while his son grew up in orphanages.
Stalin Third Show Trial
- 1. The Third Show Trial 1938 The Trial of the 21 Principal defendants Bukharin, Rykov and Kretinsky. Yagoda, who organised the earlier show trials was also accused. Charged with spying and sabotage and attempting to murder Stalin. All crimes were committed on the instructions of Trotsky. As with the other trials the defendants were tortured and forced to make prepared confessions.
- 2. Bukharin initially pleaded innocence and then guilty to no particular charge. He was repeatedly tortured and eventually caved in when the lives of his wife and infant son were threatened. All the accused were executed immediately. Bukharins wife spent 20 years in a Gulag. She wrote a powerful and moving account of the Show Trials that was published in 1988. His son grew up in orphanages. Yuri Larin only found out who his father was in 1956. The Third Show Trial 1938