At the height of the Stalinist terror of the 1930s
A) millions of Jews were slaughtered in gas chambers.
B) Moscow was burnt to the ground as part of Stalin's "scorched earth" policy.
C) the USSR joined forces with Germany and Italy to invade Poland.
D) Stalin was killed in a Kremlin coup.
E) approximately one million citizens died a year in the gulags.

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At the height of the Stalinist terror of the 1930s, approximately one million citizens died a year in the gulags. This was the system of forced labor camps where people were sent for perceived crimes against the state or for simply being seen as enemies of the regime.

At the Height of the Stalinist Terror of the 1930s