At the height of the Stalinist terror of the 1930s,
A)millions of Jews were slaughtered in gas chambers.
B)Moscow was burnt to the ground as part of Stalin's "scorched earth" policy.
C)the USSR joined forces with Germany and Italy to invade Poland.
D)Stalin was killed in a Kremlin coup.
E)approximately 1 million citizens died a year in the gulags.

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During the Stalinist terror of the 1930s, a significant number of citizens were imprisoned in gulags, where harsh conditions led to high death rates. While the exact number can vary according to different sources, it's widely acknowledged that hundreds of thousands, potentially reaching around a million per year at the peak, died due to the brutal conditions in these labor camps. The other options are historically inaccurate for this period.

At the Height of the Stalinist Terror of the 1930s