"And most Russians know this form where???"
You BRUTALY insult me. I would understand your view and stance on this issue had you lived during this time, or had been in Russia during the time. Unfortunantly neither of us have that ability. HOWEVER, one of us was raized under the USSR school system, and one was not.
We studied it all Comrade, Leni', Stalin, Marx, you name it. They had not name for it then, but I think it could be a daily and yearly equivalent of US history in the United States.
Now, where do the Russian people get this idea from?
From the fact that they where in the war!?
How many in your family died comrade? If you ever visit stalingrad, I will give you my last name, and I want you to help me count how many grandfathers, grandmothers and others in my bloodline died during that single battle. In fact because of that war most of my once huge family does not even know the other half! The War caused half the nation to marry on the spot. With all these things, you give no credit to the people that lived during the time?
Shure Stalin did some good things, but so did Bush, Hitler, Genghis Khan and many others... Most of the Russian population also agreed that there where no sides During the Great Patriotic war, for them lenin was as much a killer as the king, and in fact he was. He just won the war...
Here is a translation of one of my texts on stalin, after the Empire fell-
"When he took over the top political position he took away the land and the right to farm the land so that beyond susbsistence wages all the food could be exported to buy the machinery he wanted to turn Russia into an industrial nation. (The farmers would never have agreed to this because they did not want industrial factories, they wanted chairs, clothes, shoes and other decadent luxuries.)
Some argued that limited private farms would be better and that Stalin was turning the clock back to the days of feudal lords and serfs, but Stalin won and letter disposed of those who had argued against his plan.
To force the farmers into submission he took away their food and exported it while they died from starvation - for the greater good, of course. (About 5 million starved and another 5 million were sent off as slave labour.)
Food production fell. No one was rewarded for doing a good job so very few bothered. Somewhere between one third and one half of what was grown rotten before it could be eaten. The small plots that some farmers were allowed to operate privately were much more productive.
Russians had no freedom of choice and were ruthlessly exploited so that they would live on the least possible while producing industrial buildings, mines, canals and factories. This did produce a very large rise in the production of basic industrial goods such as coal, oil and steel. This was built on the backs of workers who were exploited, farmers who were starved and politicians who enjoyed every luxury that such a strange country could afford (except avoidance of the firing squad).
To keep in power Stalin killed anyone he thought was a threat. His suspicions were as majestic as his ambitions and so between 1934 and 1938 he is rumoured to have executed, tortured or imprisoned a member of every family in the country. He killed most of the competant military leaders and then killed the incompetant ones as well. Those who replaced them were loyal to Stalin for two obvious reasons.
By law anyone who intended to decrease the power of the state was due for 10 years imprisonment or preferably death. Of course the state decided who had such intentions"
A Russian Reporter on NTV America said something like this a month ago when there was a new report on Stalin. Lucky me I have Russian telivion and acess to the internet.
"Under the policy of "glasnost" or openness in the late '80s, scarcely a day went by without some new revelation about Stalin's monstrous crimes - revelations, that is, in the Soviet Union of things that were common knowledge in the West.
Mass graves were discovered, the so-called "Testament" of Vladimir Lenin (the Soviet Union's first leader) warning of the dangers of Stalin was published for the first time, the names of his victims - Bukharin, Trotsky and others - were spoken aloud for the first time since the dictator's death.
I remember attending a theatre performance in Moscow based on Yevgeniya Ginzburg's labour camp memoir, Into the Whirlwind, at a time when such daring productions were still rare. The audience wept openly. It was an emotional act of collective catharsis. People emerged stunned by what they had learned about their own lives and history.
Still, telling the full truth about Stalin has been a painful process, and remains difficult today. There have been remarkably few books written or films made about the period in Russia - in marked contrast to the deluge of material produced about Hitler and the Holocaust.
A dwindling Old Guard of Stalinists in Russia hark back to what they regard as a time of greatness, now lost. Stalin, they argue, defeated Hitler and created a mighty economy. They would like the city of Volgograd to be given back the name by which it is known for one of the great battles of the Second World War - Stalingrad.
An opinion poll published this week discovered that more than half of Russians think that overall Stalin played a positive role in Russian history."
I am sorry, I cannot find over 200,000 names of military leaders, please read this, it sums it up. I even have a link for you.
"All "enemies of the people" were killed. Stalin claiming he had evidence that a military coup was being planned, carried out a general purge of the army to remove the only group who had the power to overthrow him. He removed many high-ranking officers, about 70,000 men in the officer corps. Even though Stalin was removing many those that could be successful in opposing him, he was weakening the leadership of the Red Army. The Morale of the army was already low from reluctance of soldiers to follow Stalin's policies of Collectivization. The added blow of lost leaders further diminished its power, creating an army that was unprepared for World War 2."
http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva ... _purge.htm
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