Editing Soviet Union (section)

==== Torture ====
There is no evidence that torture was used to extract confessions for the Moscow Trials.

Torture was legalized at some point in 1937, according to the "Torture Telegram" of January 1939.<ref name=":4">Grover Furr, Khrushchev Lied. https://archive.org/details/khrushchev-lied</ref> It was probably July 1937, the start of the Yezhovshchina. However, before July 1937, the first two Moscow Trials and the Military Trial had already been finished, and Bukharin had already made his first confession.

Jules Humbert Droz from outside the USSR also wrote that Bukharin ordered him to commit acts of terror.<ref name=":3" /> Nonetheless, bourgeois historians claim Bukharin was innocent because he said so in a letter to Stalin. He also admitted his guilt in other letters.

Simon Sebag Montefiore used spurious evidence to claim Tukhachevsky was tortured, but this is a myth.