Saturday, September 24, 2022

Data on the amount of people convicted by the troikas of Ukraine from 19 September, 1937 to 29 October, 1937 (Reference of the 1st Special Department of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR dated October 31, 1938)

From September 19, 1937 to October 29, 1937, the Special Troikas of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR convicted a total of 30,031 people for anti-Soviet crimes. Of these, 24,985 people were to be shot, and 5,046 were to be imprisoned in camps. 

The following is a table created by me based on an NKVD reference dated 31 October, 1938 on the composition of the victims.


 



Espionage Group TOTAL 1st category 2nd category
Polish intelligence 15,873 13,667 2,206
German intelligence 8,718 7,233 1,485
Romanian intelligence 1,614 1,144 470
Bulgarian intelligence 1,124 842 282
Greek intelligence 534 428 106
Japanese intelligence 464 350 114
Czech intelligence 233 188 45
Latvian intelligence 215 134 81
English intelligence 136 121 15
Iranian intelligence 60 35 25
French intelligence 59 51 8
Italian intelligence 56 40 16
Estonian intelligence 36 29 7
Finnish intelligence 36 27 9
Turkish intelligence 22 12 10
Lithuanian intelligence 20 12 8
Hungarian intelligence 14 11 3
Yugoslav intelligence 9 2 7
American intelligence 8 6 2
Rovsov operation 679 572 107
Various espionage 121 81 40