What was the punishment for people who did what Stalin said?

Answer 1

For the most part the answer is no.

Unlike the Nazis, Joe Stalin's killers won the war and continued their crimes long afterwards. This is simply because they were on the winning side.

There were few like Lavrentry Beria who were killed in the power struggle which followed Stalin's death but they were killed because they stood in the way for Khrushchev's power grab.

Some of Stalin's murder squad had themselves been killed by the mass murderer hiself, for example Genrikh Yagoda was killed.

Most of the executioners lived out their days however. Vasili Blokhin who personally executed literally thousands of people died of Alcoholism or suicide (its debated) in 1955.

There were a few, very few really, trials of collaborators and executioners in parts of the former Soviet Union and satillite states. In 2002 80 year old Nikolai Larionov was tried in Latvia for participating in mass deportations and executions. This was protested by the Russian Government.

Similar trials were held in Germany, Hungry and elsewhere though they did not always result in convictions.

One can say that in any historical crime committed by a political entity, only the victors of conflict have the ability to exact justice. This may be why Nazi war criminals are hunted to the ends of the earth but the Stalinist murderers got away.