REPRESSIONS AGAINST THE ELITE OF THE UZBEK NATIONAL MILITARY PERSONNEL IN THE PERIOD "GREAT TERROR"

The article provides information about the servicemen of the 19th Uzbek Mountain Cavalry Division, the largest military unit in Uzbekistan, who were repressed during the Great Terror campaign of 1937-1938, when the repressions reached their peak. The policy of mass repressions pursued by the Soviet authorities in 1937-1938 against all strata and representatives of the population, including military specialists, who are considered the main support of the state, was based on the defeat of the USSR in a number of military processes, unprecedented unprecedented losses and damage in World War II.