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The event that set this massacre off was the murder of one of Stalin's many rivals, Seigei Kirov. This gave Stalin the opprotunity to arrest thousands of his threats.
Aside from political rivals such as Kirov, Leon Trotsky, and trotsky's supporters and their families, Stalin went after army personel, church leaders (churches were closed), and even ordinary people were arrested/denounced.
Show trials were used to "try" people who were a threat to Stalin's empire. If you were put on show trial, you were sure to be found guilty, no matter how impossible the crime could be. Put on show trials were people ranging from politicians to church leaders to militariy personel to average citizens.
The KGB were Russia's secret service of spies and special agents who were used to get rid of Stalin's enemies swiftly and effectively.
The Great Purges and Show Trials were one of the many ways Stalin tried to eliminate his opponents.
The definition of purge is "an abrupt or violent removal of a group of people from an organization or place." Stalin eliminated his threats, paranoia causing him to put them on trials they were sure to lose.
Joseph Stalin used the purges to rid his political party of his threats. He asked the Politburlo for a purge of the party to rid it of people who were "betraying the November 17th Revolution."