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Which Soviet Union leader began the Great Purge?

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Retry Correct Incorrect Joseph Stalin held an office in the Soviet Union for 30 years. He began the Great Purge, an ethnic and political repression which imprisoned over a million people between 1934 and 1939.

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Which Soviet Union leader began the Great Purge?

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Vladmir Lenin
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Joseph Stalin