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{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDo767vFWc& Soviet woman speech during the Great purge]| video2 =[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIhDPL92SOY Nikita Khrushchev speech during Great purge]}}{{Verification section|date=February 2022}}{{Original research section|date=February 2022}}
Russian [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] historian [[Vadim Rogovin]] argued that Stalin had destroyed thousands of foreign communists capable of leading socialist change in their respective countries. He referenced 600 active [[Bulgarian Communist Party|Bulgarian]] communists that perished in his prison camps along with the thousands of German communists that were handed over from Stalin to the Gestapo after the signing of the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact|German-Soviet Pact]]. Rogovin also noted that sixteen members of the [[Central committee]] of the [[Communist Party of Germany]] became victims of Stalinist terror. Repressive measures were also enforced upon the [[Hungarian Communist Party|Hungarian]], [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] and other [[Communist Party of Poland|Polish Communist]] parties.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rogovin |first1=Vadim Zakharovich |title=Was There an Alternative? Trotskyism: a Look Back Through the Years |date=2021 |publisher=Mehring Books |isbn=978-1-893638-97-6 |pages=380 |language=en}}</ref> According to historian [[Eric D. Weitz]], 60% of German exiles in the Soviet Union were liquidated during the Stalinist terror, and a higher proportion of the KPD Politburo membership had died in the Soviet Union than had died in Nazi Germany. Weitz also noted that hundreds of German citizens, the majority of whom were Communists, were handed over to the Gestapo from Stalin's administration.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weitz |first1=Eric D. |title=Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State |date=13 April 2021 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-22812-9 |page=280 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOgSEAAAQBAJ&dq=stalin+handed+over+german+communists+gestapo&pg=PA280 |language=en}}</ref> [[Joseph Berger-Barzilai]], co-founder of the [[Communist Party of Palestine]], spent twenty five years in Stalin's prisons and concentrations camps after the purges in 1937.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deutscher |first1=Isaac |title=The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky |date=5 January 2015 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-78168-721-5 |page=1443|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGznDwAAQBAJ&q=isaac+deutscher+trotsky+the+prophet |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Wasserstein |first1=Bernard |title=On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War |date=May 2012 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4165-9427-7 |page=395 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/On_the_Eve/HJSQZJKHX_8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Joseph+Berger-Barzilai+purge&pg=PA395&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref> External purges were also conducted in [[Spain]], in which the NKVD oversaw purges of anti-Stalinist elements in the Spanish
Eventually almost all of the [[Bolsheviks]] who had played prominent roles during the [[Russian Revolution]], or in Lenin's Soviet government, were executed.{{Original research inline|date=May 2021}} Out of six members of the original [[Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Politburo]] during the [[October Revolution]] who lived until the Great Purge, Stalin himself was the only one who remained in the Soviet Union, alive.{{sfn|Gellately|2007}} Four of the other five were executed; the fifth, [[Leon Trotsky]], had been forced into exile outside the Soviet Union in 1929, but was assassinated in Mexico by Soviet agent [[Ramón Mercader]] in 1940. Of the seven members elected to the Politburo between the October Revolution and Lenin's death in 1924, four were executed, one ([[Mikhail Tomsky|Tomsky]]) committed suicide, and two (Molotov and [[Mikhail Kalinin|Kalinin]]) lived.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}
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