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| | Trial of the Twenty One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | There were four key trials from 1936 to 1938, The Trial of the Sixteen was the first (December 1936); then the Trial of the Seventeen (January 1937); then the trial of Red Army generals, including Marshal Tukhachevsky (June 1937); and finally the Trial of the Twenty One in March 1938. |
 | | The chief accused at the final trial were Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Nikolai Krestinsky, Christian Rakovsky, and Genrikh Yagoda. |
 | | In a similar vein to the earlier trials the defendants were accused of plotting to assassinate Stalin, of conspiring to wreck the economy and the country's military power, of working for the espionage services of Britain, France, Japan, and Germany and of making secret agreements with Germany and Japan. |
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