At the Height of the Stalinist Terror of the 1930s

question 14

Multiple Choice

At the height of the Stalinist terror of the 1930s,

• A) millions of Jews were slaughtered in gas chambers.
• B) Moscow was burned to the ground as part of Stalin's "scorched earth" policy.
• C) the USSR joined forces with Germany and Italy to invade Poland.
• D) Stalin was killed in a Kremlin coup.
• E) millions of ordinary Soviet citizens were sent to gulags.

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