A Brief History
On June 11, 1937, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had eight of his top army generals executed as part of The Great Purge. From 1934 to 1940 Stalin had vast numbers of government, party, and army officials murdered to satisfy his paranoid delusions that everyone was out to get him. This purge left his military in bad shape when war came, stripped of many of its most capable officers, but just another day for “The Man of Steel.” Stalin was a bad person indeed, and although Hitler is generally regarded as the most evil man in history, Uncle Joe gives him a run for his money.
Digging Deeper
10. The Great Purge, 1934-1940.
As stated above, Stalin was a paranoid that ruthlessly clung to power. In order to upset any budding power bases or alliances that might work against him, he went on a spree of executing, imprisoning, and firing many officials at many levels, especially the highest levels. With the military, it is shocking to see the facts: Officers removed from office one way or another: 3 of 5 Marshalls, 8 of 9 Admirals, 13 of 15 Army Commanders, 50 of 57 Corps Commanders, 16 of 16 Army Commissars, and 25 of 28 Corps Commissars. His stripping of the military leadership cost the Soviets dearly when they tried to invade Finland and when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
9. Purge of Intelligentsia, 1920-1940.
Pianist Khadija Gayibova, executed in 1938, was one of among at least 2000 of the best and brightest minds in the Soviet Union who were sent to prisons where at least 1500 of them died. Writers, poets, philosophers and playwrights were jailed for producing anything other than pure propaganda, astronomers were jailed for studying sun spots, and weathermen were jailed for failing to make accurate predictions! Scientists and engineers that failed to solve problems according to Stalin’s schedule were also purged, especially during the war.
8. Wife’s Suicide/Murder, 1932.
Stalin was a bad father and a bad husband. One of his sons shot himself and lived, causing Stalin to complain, “He can’t even shoot.” When that son was captured by the Germans, Stalin refused a trade for a German general and his son died. At a dinner in 1932 where Stalin and his wife argued, Stalin was seen flicking cigarettes at her (quite classy) and later that night she either committed suicide or was murdered by Stalin. (Hitler’s wife committed suicide with him and Hitler’s previous lovers also committed suicide. What a coincidence!)
7. Self-Serving Relations with China, 1940-1953.
Stalin at first betrayed his fellow communists in China by supporting Chiang Kai Shek instead of Mao tse Tung and the communists, because he believed that Chiang had a better chance of keeping the Japanese from invading Siberia, and he ignored the mass murder of communists by Chiang. Stalin further hurt the Chinese communists by supporting the Turkic Muslims in their quest for an independent state. By 1950, when it was prudent to do so, Stalin became best buddies with China and now had a major ally in the Cold War. In a similar manner, Stalin at first supported the creation of Israel and then later withdrew his support. For the most part, Stalin was another anti-Semite at heart.
6. Scorched Earth Policy, 1941-1943.
Absolutely uncaring about his own population, Stalin ordered everything in the path of advancing Germans to be burned, leaving no food or useful supplies of any type for them. Of course, this policy was hard on the peasants who lost everything, and led to more starvation.
5. Shooting and Imprisoning Soldiers, 1941-1945.
Just as Hitler was killing his own people left and right for “defeatism,” Stalin gave orders to shoot deserting or unauthorized retreating troops on sight. He went so far as to set up “blocking detachments” to gun down troops fleeing from the front. In this time frame, well over 400,000 soldiers were sent to “penal battalions” where they would be deployed in areas almost certain to get them killed.
4. Katyn Massacre, 1940.
After stabbing Poland in the back by invading after the Polish military was completely engaged with the Nazi invasion, Stalin took his big chunk of Poland for himself. In early 1940 on Stalin’s personal orders, over 25,000 of Poland’s best military officers were executed. When the Soviets retook Poland in 1944 the Soviets pretended the Nazis had committed the atrocity. The Soviets finally admitted guilt in 1990.
3. Censorship and Propaganda, 1924-1953.
During the entire tenure of Stalin’s reign no free press or freedom of much of anything was enjoyed in the Soviet Union or any country controlled by it. People were bombarded with government propaganda and denied access to information or cultural influences from other (western) countries. Just as Hitler and the Nazis, Stalin and the Soviets jailed or killed anyone that spoke contrary to his preferred viewpoint.
2. The Iron Curtain, 1945-1991.
After World War II Stalin failed to live up to the understanding that European countries would have the right of self determination and he imposed the rule of the Soviet Union upon them. Making these countries have communist governments whether the people wanted it or not, and restricting movement in or out of the “communist bloc” made this mass of people little more than slaves, creating an even bigger Soviet empire than that of before the war.
1. Starvation of the Ukraine, 1932-1933.
Hitler is notorious for killing as many as 6 million Jews and another 5 million assorted people, but in the Holodomor, intentional starvation of the Ukraine Stalin killed as many as 7.5 million Ukrainians. (Added with his other murders and genocides this definitely puts him in Hitler’s class.) Although the Ukraine is considered the “breadbasket” of the Soviet Union where the most productive farms are, the food produced was removed for residents of other parts of the country and Ukrainians were left to starve. The widespread and horrible scale of the starvation led people to eat the dead, and 2500 were convicted of cannibalism. The independence minded people of the Ukraine were starved into submission, pure and simple. Soviet propaganda denied the famine for many years, refusing to admit Stalin’s psychotic willingness to kill people or allow the world to think people in the “workers’ paradise” could possibly starve. Soviet propaganda also insidiously spread into western countries with false messages that the famine was natural and not planned. After the fall of the Soviet Union Russian and Ukrainian officials were somewhat more forthcoming, but the issue remains a hot topic between Russia and Ukraine.
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. Vintage Books, 1993.
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A very good argument for giving Stalin the top spot. I suppose a list could be made for Mao Zedong as well. That rat bastard killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined!
Ah, but he didn’t kill Jews. That makes him ok.
Stalin was a very cold man. He had no sympathy. Even when his son shot himself, he didn’t care that he tried to commit suicide, but made a sly remark of “he can’t even shoot!” Because he lived through it.
I would agree that Stalin was indeed worse than Hitler. His starvation of the Ukraine alone killed more people than Hitler did. Stalin was a very cruel man.
Stalin was definitely worse than Hitler. I’m really not sure why it isn’t as widely known as Hitler and the Holocaust. It’d be sad to say that maybe it was because the US knew they needed their sheer size to defeat Germany and they were unsure of being able to bring down the Soviet Union too.
After learning more about Stalin, I say that he was worse than Hitler. Locking up the 2000 smartest mind was not a smart move nor was anything else he did.
I agree, Stalin was much worse than Hitler. I think Hitler’s actions are more widely talked about so most people think he was the worst.
One difference between Stalin and Hitler, as far as my knowledge, is that Stalin was absolutely ruthless in his willingness to kill anyone, even those close to him (whether politically or by relationship). While Hitler was ruthless, he was obviously extremely prejudiced and mainly killed those of Jewish faith. The diversity of those that died in Stalin’s hands makes him seem MORE evil and mentally deranged than Hitler.
Stalin was worse in my opinion. He was completely ruthless and did not have any feelings toward his people but hate.
I remember a high school history teacher telling our class that Stalin was worse than Hitler. He said that Stalin’s evil actions weren’t as well known as Hitler because the Soviet Union was a part of the Allies during WWII and the Allies were known to be the good guys.
I cant believe that Stalin refused a trade for a German general and for his own son.
From what I have learned in class Stalin seems to be somewhat worse. I think that he was more gruesome.
From what I have learned Stalin was the more cruel person, but doesn’t get the attention Hitler does because Hitler was not allies with us like Stalin during WW2.
Take your pick. These two were just evil men.
It doesn’t really matter who is worse than who, Stalin and Hitler are horrible human beings
This article claims that he was worse than Hilter. None of those ten points would make Stalin even remotely close to be as bad as Hitler, let alone surpassing him in that, even if they all were accurate. But they are not:
10. Actual number of military personnel that was purged constituted just from 5 to 10% of all officers, most of those who were purged did not have higher military/academy education; and many of those who purged were reinstalled by 1941 — including the Rokossovky, a marshal hero of WWII. Stalin could not physically control every aspect of what NKVD did, and when he saw mistakes, he took actions to correct them;
9 Most of the purges were not intended, for example, the peak in 1937. After Stalin got full statistics he saw that Ezhov, who was a NKVD mastermind behind the spike, has abused its power and went nuts; Ezhov had his trial and the new head of NKVD Beria has immediately started to reconsider the cases of those who were punished unjustly. Already by 1939 Beria has reverted about 400 000 of unjust convictions;
8. What was presented as bad attitudes of Stalin towards his son, was a showcase of his principles. He did not treat his son any differently, comparing to any other Soviet soldier. On the account of how he treated his wives there is no clarity since much of it is hearsay. Also, the accusation that he has murdered his wife is absurd, there is nothing to confirm that (hence even this article does not assert, but rather insinuates it);
7. This point is also wrong: Stalin supported Chiang Kai-shek because he thought he was “red general”, a communist. When Chiang Kai-shek has turned against communists in late 1920s, Stalin has stopped to support him, of course, and has consistently helped actual communists, including Mao, ever since. Support of Chinese Muslims was only to be by example of USSR itself — ethnicities rules their own territories, though they are united in communist system. Support for Israel has stopped only because the West has started to use Zionists as spies. The last claim that Stalin was an anti-Semite is ridiculous since he was internationalist. Jews always had major positions in both power and culture in USSR, including Stalin’s times;
6. “Scorched Earth” policy was carried only in places where USSR also evacuated people (as well as industrial enterprises). This claim in the article “forgets” to mentions it;
5. First mass use of “barrier troops” was not by USSR, but by Nazis during their failed battle for Moscow in the winter 1941/1942. They were used to not let soldiers succumb to fear and start fleeing the battlefield, as the result of that would be disaster for much greater number of soldiers. This methods has proven to be effective by German army, and it was accepted by USSR. However, it was not widely used by USSR since 1943, when Soviet army has started to attack way more than to be in defence;
4. Katyn case has started as Goebbels propaganda, and the documents on that were “found” in archives by very dubious characters, their authenticity is quite disputable among historians. Besides that, some of the places where victims were found were not controlled by NKVD or anything Soviet at the time of those events, and victims suspiciously has documents with them, what never happened with people who were held by NKVD. Historians still dispute this whole thing big time, so I am not saying things happened one way or another, but this is exactly the reason why this point of the article is not valid;
3. If you will look at how e.g. USA’s media were controlled in 1920-1930s or, the more so, in 1940s, it is the same censorship, though not as overt as it was in USSR, and even more propaganda. The funny thing is that before Truman came to power, the propaganda in USA was pro-Soviet. And it was turned upside down almost overnight. So much for “the land of the free”. So while this point in the article is correct, it is void since everybody was doing it;
2. Ridiculous point. The Iron curtain was made up by Truman and Churchill, not by Stalin. If Roosevelt was alive for a few years longer, Poland could have been something like Finland was — a neutral non-communist country with high socialistic standards. As Finland’s example and all of documented talks and agreements between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill show, Stalin initially had no plans to make any of the countries communist, including Poland;
1. The most absurd point, probably. Starvation in 1932-1933 happened through out several regions of USSR, only 40% of it had to do with Ukraine, and the main reason for that were two years of bad crop, as well as drastic reformation of agriculture, not some “intentional” “evil” Stalin’s policies. Some in the government, however, did abuse their power during the famine for their career advance interests, and had their trials for that. As I mentioned before, Stalin has mentioned the mistakes that happen in the government and always tried to correct them. Finally, accurate death toll from the famine is about 1 million people, not those crazy millions.
*This all not to say that Stalin was a flower*; he has built the system that was the most effective in preparing the country to the WWII — he has moved 18 million people from the countrysides’ agriculture to work in over 9000 newly built industrial enterprises in just ten years. As a major drawback, this system of highly effective command and management has allowed bloody mistakes to be made. My point is, though, that the atrocities during Stalin’s times are order of magnitude exaggerated by propaganda. For example, confirmed “political” death toll during all of GULAG’s thirty-plus years long history is 680 thousand, not 40 million or whatever figures were made up by Solzhenitsyn and others. And this figure includes, for example, masses of Nazi collaborators who were killing Russians, Jews and Poles during WWII (especially Banderites, members of Shukhevich’s Nazis).
If you know principles of dialectics, you know how things always come one from another. The system that Stalin has built was the only reason how Europe today is not a Nazi empire, and how Slavs are not slaves/castrated, how Jews/Gypsies/LGBTs are not burned, and yes, this very system had its own death toll (though, if accurately assessed, you would see that any thirty years of USA’s history in 20th Century has brought as much or way more deaths than thirty years of Stalin’s regime). So, in the end, no matter how harsh it may have been, it has to be accepted that Stalin’s system has done way more good than bad. The only alternative to that would be Nazis, and milder system than Stalin’s would not be able to prepare USSR to withstand them.
What part of “Might Be” is confusing? The article is meant to stimulate thought, discussion, and remind people of what a lousy guy Stalin was. We gladly accept other information and additional opinions. Thanks for your input. We are not wedded to the ideas here.
You are right, “might be” is there; it is fair point. But the title is still outrageous. It is as if someone would write an article “10 Reasons SSREEDD Might Be Paedophile” “10 Reasons Major Dan Might Be Paedophile” — the “Might Be” part would not help much, I guess.
/r/ShitLiberalsSay
I have no idea what this post is saying.
Both these guys were terrible people, I don’t know why you would try to say who is worse than who when they do these terrible things.
I was unaware of the things that Stalin did. It is unfortunate that I am just now learning of these thing after almost fourteen years of schooling.
After reading this I do agree that Stalin was much more cold hearted than Hitler. I don’t think it is a contest who is worse than the other, but it shows that both are terrible when the total of death in a genocide is 14.5 million.
They were both terrible evil people. There is really no comparing the two. They were just terrible people.
Hitler and Stalin were both evil people. Hitler went after the innocent and Stalin went after anyone that was in his way.
Hitler and Stalin were both brutal dictators. Stalin ruled by terror, eliminating anyone who opposed him or his views. I find the statements regarding his paranoia to be interesting and wonder how many of his actions could have been due to mental state.
I can not believe I did not know all of this about Stalin. I knew that he was also a dictator who did terrible things. Behind all the Hitler was known for doing, I failed to see someone who may have been even worse.
I was unaware of what Stalin did until I read this article. I do not even think about comparing the differences between Hitler and Stalin because they are both horrible people in my opinion.
I have heard a lot about Stalin, but never knew all of these dark things about him. It is terrifying to think of having a leader that is discriminatory to that extent. It is not fathomable to think that someone was an even more evil leader than Hitler was.
Comparing Hitler and Stalin is tough because they both killed thousands of people. I have heard of Stalin before but I did not realize how many people he killed. I also find it crazy that he killed so many talented people.
Stalin was a very disturbed man. I was not aware that he killed 7.5 million Ukrainians. He caused them to starve leading 2,500 people to be convicted of cannibalism when Ukraine is supposed to be the country that is the main food supplier. Also, how can a father abandon his son and mock him after he tries to commit suicide? Stalin seemed to be much worse than Hitler after reading this article.
I did a project on Stalin in high school, so I was aware of most of the horrible things that he has done. I believe that both Hitler and Stalin were practically the spawns of Satan.
I had no idea Stalin was so crazy and killed that many people. Nothing he or Hitler did make sense, definite sociopaths!!
I was most disgusted when I read the sentence that said that “one of his sons shot himself and lived, causing Stalin to complain, ‘He can’t even shoot.’” Not only did Stalin treat the people in the Soviet Union poorly, but he was awful to his own family.
Both Hitler and Stalin disgust me. How can one person be okay with killing over millions of human beings?
Overall, the aspect of Stalin’s life that struck out to me was the section titled, “wife’s suicide/murder.” This really struck out to me because it shows that although family is one of the closest and most important thing that society upholds, Stalin showed know remorse or love for his family.
I don’t believe that I can say one was worse than the other because they both were horrible people. The part that stuck out the most was when his son tried to kill himself and failed, as well as when he was taken by the Germans and Stalin still didn’t care.
I find it quite interesting that both Stalin, and Hitler both had those that were close to them that had committed suicide. It makes me curious as to what similarities these two men may have shared when it came to their personal lives.
It is remarkable how sad and disturbing this information about Stalin is. What an evil individual.
Just to know a man caused cannibalization of 2,500 people is amazing. he broke the hearts as well as the spirits of the Ukrainian people.
According to the article, we know about that Stalin was a man who loves power more than anything else.
It was so surprise to hear Stalin betrayed Mao tse Tung by supporting Chiang Kai Shek.
It was shocking to me that Stalin was this bad. It seems to me that both Stalin and Hitler were horrible people.
It did not surprise me about Stalin’s behavior. I knew he was a bad leader and was just as bad if not worse than Hitler.
Stalin’s regime has killed more people than Hitler’s regime. The only regime that has killed more people than Stalin is Mao Zedong.
This article did not surprise me at all about Stalin’s behavior. I knew that he was a bad leader and was just as bad as Hitler was.
I think people overlook Stalin because Hitler’s name is so popular, but he actually did really bad things, even worse than Hitler.
I have always agreed that Stalin was overlooked and definitely did just as horrible of things, if not worse, than Hitler. I think Hitler’s name is so popular because of how quickly he killed the large amount of people that he did. Both people are despicable in my opinion.
For 7.5 million Ukrainians to die of starvation is awful.
I still believe Hitler was more evil.
I have always wondered why we did not talk about Stalin more. He definitely did horrible things, and he killed more people than Hitler when it comes down to it.
I think people do not recognize stalin because everyone thinks hitler was so much worse.
Stalin was an evil dictator who was hinted to be related to “Big Brother” in the novel 1984.
You always hear about Stalin, but it was cool to read about how nasty he really was. It is hard to say which one was worse in my opinion.
Dictatorship lead to paranoia in both Hitler and Stalin. However, people often forget that Stalin killed so many people because he helped defeat Germany.
I remember learning about Stalin and Hitler in many history classes over the years. It seems that people often compare the two and determine one to be greater or worse than the other. To me, the bigger picture is that they were both responsible for committing terrible acts and destroying the lives of so many.
I think that Stalin and Hitler were both terrible people who did horrible things. They’re equally as bad.
Stalin was truly one of the worst of the worst as far as dictators go, a truly horrible man.
Yes I always thought Hitler was bad but now I know better.
I didn’t think anyone could be worse then Hitler until I read this article about Stalin. Wow Stalin was truly a bad person.
I found the comic at the top to be very interesting with it only having so little words
Stalin and Hitler were both obviously mentally ill. I cannot even imagine what goes on in the fevered brain of a psychopath.
Stalin is an awful man just like Hitler!
Purging your administration might not be a bad idea, maybe just fire them and not kill them! Being paranoid is not the way you want to be when running the show. Stalin was definitely delusional.
I’m not sure where I was in school when we talked about Stalin but I never realized how much damage and killing that he also did. I found this article very disturbing, especially about the stats on the military staff that he took the lives of.
I find it interesting how insecure Stalin was. He was jailing and killing the people that were most likely to make his country thrive, which obviously was the downfall in Stalin’s dictatorship.
This article is one of my favorite so far, because it had so much information that I did not know. Stalin was paranoid for a good reason because his people thought he was crazy and was not a good leader. I can’t belief that we(U.S.) were working with him.
Wow. I did not realize Stalin killed so many. I would imagine him and Hitler are enjoying shots of fire in hell.
I remember learning about Stalin in school and being shocked because I didn’t realize he was such an awful man.
The word evil does Stalin no justice. This man was crazy. The way he treated his military, people, and family shows me this man was not all there mentally.
Hitler and Stalin were bother equally paranoid, delusional, mass murders even if Stalin did eventually kill more people with just the one incident of starving more than 7.5 million Ukrainians. The difference is Hitler was more tactical in his actions. Everything Hitler did was planned and thought out. Stalin was erratic to the point were some of his genocidal killings made very little sense.
Wow, Stalin was a horrible person! I had no idea (Prior to reading this) that he had done most of the things listed in the passage. Stalin and Hitler were both evil men, I believe them to be equally evil. I cannot believe that Stalin let the Germans kill his son and did not care much about it.
I have realized that I was naive because I always thought that Hitler was the worst man in history. I did not realize that Stalin was just as bad.
I knew Stalin was not no angel. However, he is much worse than I expected.
I have read a few other articles, plus I have seen different movies made about Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and in my opinion he was a bigger coward than Hitler himself. Both of them hid in their bunkers for most of the War. Stalin gave orders to shoot deserting or unauthorized retreating troops on sight. He went as far as to set up “”blocking detachments” to gun down troops fleeing from the front.
I honestly did not know how horrible Stalin was and how many people he killed.
It is sad how one mans paranoia caused the death of so many. So many that were truly on his side.
Sounds like he was should have been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Though many innocent people lost their lives, I am not sure if he is worse than Hitler. Both are pretty evil.
Stalin sounds like a petty psychopath. Exiling people because they got the weather wrong is insane! I think Stalin probably is more insane than Hitler, which is why Hitler was more successful.
I would say this man is right up there with Hitler but on a somewhat different level. Some of the things Stalin was having people murdered for is outrageous!
People often use the phrases sociopath and psychopath interchangeably. A complete lack of empathy, conscience, and compassion for his fellow citizens, combined with paranoia, and delusional behavior, makes Stalin a dyed in the wool sociopath to me. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a tie. Both Stalin and Hitler were both truly awful,despicable people.
I’d say both Stalin and Hitler are sick individuals. Can you imagine living with someone such as Stalin, or Hitler? No wonder Stalin’s wife committed suicide poor woman.
People that have no ability to empathize really concern me, but these two individuals surpass any level of concern. As far as I am concerned they are one in the same.
I had always heard that he was bad but I never knew or took the time to find out how bad Joseph Stalin really was.
Both Stalin and Hitler were both evil men who were a detriment to mankind. It was not surprising to learn not only was Stalin an evil leader, but was also a bad father and husband as well. Nevertheless, I am not amazed to say the least. What kind of man remarks, “He can’t even shoot” after his son attempts to kill himself? Additionally, I have no doubt in my mind that Stalin had his wife killed.
Hitler and Stalin both were evil men. I was kind of surprised to learn that Stalin was also a bad father and husband. One would think he would keep his ‘wok’ life separate from his home life.
I have no intention of creating a hyperbolic link between Stalin and Trump, but I find point number 9, “Purge of Intelligentsia,” interesting in light of some recent news having to do with the new U.S. administration. Although there is no reason to believe the U.S. government would have any of the same authority, or gall, as Stalin had to kill or detain the nation’s finest minds, I wonder if a parallel can be made between Stalin’s purge of intellectuals and recent reports that scientists within the U.S. government have backed up decades worth of research on climate change to independent servers out of fear that it could be “lost” under the new government administration. If so, it seems scientists are preemptively working to ensure that the government cannot choke out any information that could support theories that run contrary to its views, much like Stalin did in a more literal and fatal sense during his time.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/?utm_term=.58944c7e6439)
When taking into consideration these top ten ideas, it is easy to compare Stalin with Hitler. It’s unfortunate to think of the lives these two men destroyed.
I wasn’t surprised that he was also a bad husband and a bad father. This man had no regard for anyone but himself. I hope we never see leaders who kill in this capacity again in our future.
Wow!!! Stalin was pretty evil. his total lack of regard for people is just mind blowing!!
I also wasn’t surprised to find out he was a bad husband and father, it is truly sad that someone could have so much evil and hatred in their heart.
I had no idea. Is it the propaganda that has kept this knowledge out of mainstream in comparison to Hitler?
Why do we not know Stalin as this kind of person? I had no idea. Speaking of your son that way and then letting him die…that is cold.
True to the documented tendency for Jews to “re-write” history to bend to their liking, Stalin’s “inner circle” was home to a VERY large number of jews who over-saw Stalin’s atrocities. Be very careful when believing the jews useful over exaggerations of deaths via the Holocaust. The Holocaust was fiendish indeed, but the jews are always at the front of the line blowing their horns. An equal number of non-jews are tracked down and murdered. Stalin’s reign was worse because of the numbers of people he and his cabal killed, the length it went on and that so many of his top “comrades” were jews.
Bottom line is that BOTH of these theaters of “Holocaust” were despicable, but the jews were active in both of them (In WW II, the jewish London banking mob…aka… The Rothschilds, were funding the war on both sides). To this day the Khazarian jewish mob is alive, well and re-establishing themselves and shielding their active hatred of Goyim and the Children of Shem that inspires and drive them everyday…..
Here is a solid article to ponder: https://www.darkmoon.me/2015/stalins-willing-executioners-jews-hostile-elite-ussr/
It’s like that with every ethnicity etc. There’s the evil ones and the non-evil ones.
Stalin was a bad person at his family members, he was compelling by his son suicide instead of taking a good care of his son. HIs argue with his wife made her wife suicide as well. I think his life is totally failed.
Stalin’s reign was worse, which lots of non-jews are tracked down and murdered. in fact, the history cannot change, people need to approved it.
I just do not understand how such an ill man (men) can continue to call orders and people follow them. How can one person have so much influence and no body tries to stop them? There are many others responsible along with both Hitler and Stalin.
Both Hitler and Stalin were equally diabolical……………And with that said, the United States had a common enemy with Stalin and looked the other way ……….to all of his atrocities…………..We put all the Nazis on trial after the war …………….What about Uncle Joe and his cronies? They grabbed land in the name of communism………..the rest is history.
what with everyone’s ppf the dog?
Are you referring to the basset hound in the pumpkin costume? It’s just the default profile picture I chose (I had a basset hound). You are welcome to create your own profile photo on Disqus as I have done for myself and some of the posters below, such as Steven Browning have also done.
You forgot to mention other carefully engineered famines. Ukraine was just one part of the whole plan. Kazaks became a minority in their own country after the famine. Stalin “relocated” populations in large areas of multiple occupied countries, settled Russians there and made it Russian.
The most interesting thing is that Stalin wasn’t of Russian origin, but he definitely did act in Russian interest.
People always mentioned Hitler….but Hitler reigned for only 12 years (if I am not mistaken), but Stalin reigned for decades and unlike Hitller, Stallin (but also his successors) didn’t have to worry about the war or anyone stopping him before 1939 and after 1945. When the Final Solution started in 1941, Hitler had to worry about many, many other things that prevented him from being truly effective (and it at started at the worst time, during the war, shows how mad Hitler was).
Also, google about Year Zero in Cambodia. That’s far more insane, shocking an terrifying than anything that Hitler had done….and that says a lot! Eastern communists did the worst atrocities in the 20th century but that’s largely ignored because they won the war. It wasn’t said “we fought against the wrong enemy” without a good reason…