Military-Fascist Conspiracy
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The official label for the fabricated June 1937 case in which Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven other senior Red Army commanders were secretly tried and shot as an 'anti-Soviet Trotskyist military organization.' Fabricated by Stalin and Yezhov, the case was the military turning point of the Great Purge and triggered the dismissal of over 37,000 officers. All defendants were posthumously rehabilitated in 1957; the 1964 Shvernik Commission confirmed the evidence was entirely falsified.
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- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia article on the Tukhachevsky Case, providing the full official name 'дело антисоветской троцкистской военной организации,' the list of defendants, trial procedure, and the term 'военно-фашистский заговор' as used in NKVD Order No. 072 of 7 June 1937
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia article confirming the case as a 1937 secret trial, the eight defendants executed on 11–12 June 1937, the 1957 rehabilitation, and the post-1990 archival consensus that the plot was Stalin's fabrication
- docs.historyrussia.org NKVD Order No. 072 of 7 June 1937 (РГВА. Ф. 4. Оп. 15. Д. 13. Л. 187), the official order announcing the 'предательской контрреволюционной военно-фашистской организации в РККА,' establishing the term as the regime's own label
- msuweb.montclair.edu Shvernik Commission report (1964), CPSU Presidium investigation confirming that the 'дело о так называемом военно-фашистском заговоре' was entirely falsified, with all evidence fabricated by the NKVD