The Terror had a lot more popular support than Newsweek makes it sound (in the quotes anyway).
--- "John E. Norem" <jnorem at cox.net> wrote:
> Joseph Stalin
>
<http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Joseph+Stalin>
> never had
> any problem finding willing executioners. Everyone
> from his Politburo
> colleagues to the secret-police rank and file
> dutifully carried out his
> wishes during the Great Terror of 1937-38, when
> approximately 700,000
> people were shot in assembly-line executions. It was
> a huge job, and no
> one was a more enthusiastic organizer than Nikolai
> Ezhov
>
<http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Nikolai+Ezhov>,
> the head
> of the NKVD, as the secret police was then called.
> But when,
> predictably, the killing frenzy began consuming the
> executioners
> themselves, Ezhov didn't go gracefully. "He started
> to hiccup, weep, and
> when he was conveyed to 'the place,' they had to
> drag him by the hands
> along the floor," a witness recalled. "He struggled
> and screamed terribly."
>
>
> http://www.newsweek.com/id/90408
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