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✖The current Russian state can be seen as a hybrid regime. This hybrid is
not, however, one of authoritarian and democratic models, but rather of
Soviet nomenklatura system and of the mafia-state as analyzed in detail by Bálint Magyar, referring to the case of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary,
The current Russian state can be seen as a hybrid regime. This hybrid is not, however one of authoritarian and democratic models, but rather of Soviet nomenklatura system and of the mafia-state as described by Balint Magyar, referring to the case of Viktor Orban's Hungary.
Immediately after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Stalinist state started a “purge” of “suspicious elements” in the country. The campaign resembled the Great Terror in several parameters: the arrests took place throughout the country, certain categories of the population were repressed. Religious believers were among the repressed. Their persecution was extremely brutal. The courts of general jurisdiction were one of the instruments of repressions. The article is based on their materials. The war became an incentive for a terror campaign, but it had also set the latter’s limits. It was impossible to simultaneously fight with an external opponent and to conduct a large-scale campaign against "internal enemies". The scale of repression against believers, as well as the degree of its brutality, significantly decreased during the war, but the persecution never fully ceased.
At the end of the Great Terror, Stalin reversed course and reined in the NKVD. Hundreds of NKVD interrogators and other officials were arrested and charged with “violations of socialist legality.” Punishments ranged from imprisonment in the Gulag to execution. This repression of the NKVD was the result of a combination of scapegoating and “clan” politics. The arrests and accompanying trials of these NKVD officers created an enormous paper trail of sources, strictly classified in the FSB archives in Moscow. Recently, however, the security police archives in Ukraine opened its doors to researchers. The result is access to a range of sources which allow researchers, for the first time, to explore in detail the topic of Soviet perpetrators, in this case, the Soviet security police during and in the aftermath of the Great Terror.
Tha analysis is given of the politica situaion and its major trends of development on the eve of 2018 presidential elections