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In implementing Soviet internal policy with respect to perceived enemies of the state (" enemies of the people "), untold multitudes of people were sent to GULAG camps and hundreds of thousands were executed by the NKVD.
Formally, most of these people were convicted by NKVD troikas (" triplets ")– special courts martial.
Evidential standards were very low: a tip-off by an anonymous informer was considered sufficient grounds for arrest.
Use of " physical means of persuasion " ( torture ) was sanctioned by a special decree of the state, which opened the door to numerous abuses, documented in recollections of victims and members of the NKVD itself.
Hundreds of mass graves resulting from such operations were later discovered throughout the country.
Documented evidence exists that the NKVD committed mass extrajudicial executions, guided by secret " plans ".
Those plans established the number and proportion of victims ( officially " public enemies ") in a given region ( e. g. the quotas for clergy, former nobles etc., regardless of identity ).
The families of the repressed, including children, were also automatically repressed according to NKVD Order no.
00486.

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