AHC: The Great Purge Fails

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The challenge is to get Soviet secret police to bungle Stalin's purge to point where it fails completely.
("Fail" could mean the populace at large resisting attempts at arrest; the courts going rouge by throwing out confessions and releasing most who are arrested; etc.)
The PoD must occur after 1930 and Stalin has to be alive.
 
Perhaps Yezhov realises Stalin will eventually turn on him and is more successful in using the purge to build a power base. At some point he desperately tries to launch a coup alongside disaffected military men or even just tries to assassinate Stalin.
 
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