During the late 1930s, Joseph Stalin eliminated his opposition and enemies. Why did this communist leader, who used fear and terror to get his way, insist on show trials for those he believed committed treason?

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Joseph Stalin may have been a stern dictator but he believed in the fairness of a trial by a body of one’s peers.
	Show trials were a way to keep the vast majority of the people believing that the government had their interests at heart.
	The people accused of treason and other crimes against the state publicly demanded a fair and honest trial.
	As a new government, Stalin knew the eyes of the world were on his every move and wanted to put a good foot forward.

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@caseysorensen

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I picked as a new government but it was wrong.

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The Great Purge or the Great Terror  was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership, and widespread police  Following the Civil War and reconstruction of the Soviet economy in the late

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Im still not sure which it would be.. Would it be C?