The doomed Red general in "Darkness at Noon" could easily be any one of several real victims of the bloody Moscow purge trials of 1936-38
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Events leading to the trials, says Lyman Harris, are typical of Russia's traditional policy of iron-hand rule at all cost. Lenin's death in 1924 touched off a battle for power between Stalin and Trotsky.