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How significant was the Great Purge in terms of reducing the amount of intelligent, artistic, business-savy, etc. people in the Soviet Union? Are it's effects still felt in Russian culture and the remaining intelligensia or are its effects over-exaggerated?

by /u/notmike11 in /r/AskHistorians

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