On Stalin's show trials Shaw said reports had been exaggerated and he rejected suggestions that the accused had only pleaded guilty because they had been drugged or tortured.
Meanwhile as we know, at least 720,000 people were executed in the terror that followed and millions more died from hunger and ill-treatment in concentration camps.
On Stalin's show trials Shaw said reports had been exaggerated and he rejected suggestions that the accused had only pleaded guilty because they had been drugged or tortured.
Meanwhile as we know, at least 720,000 people were executed in the terror that followed and millions more died from hunger and ill-treatment in concentration camps.