By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 October 2026
How the First Nagorno-Karabakh War Broke Out
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NKVD Order No. 00447 (English Translation)
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 August 2023
The head of the Soviet NKVD, Nikolai Yezhov, issued Prikaz (Order) Number 00447 on 30 July 1937, a secret instruction soon signed-off by Joseph Stalin, which vastly expanded the scope and scale of the Great Terror within the Soviet Union. The 2008 book, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov, as translated by Benjamin Sher, contains nearly the full text of the order (pp. 473-80), which is reproduced below.
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