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History See other History Articles Title: Stalin, The Red Terror | Full Documentary A Comprehensive Documentary on Joseph Stalin's Brutal Regime, Mass Killings, and Ambition to Create a Communist Utopia in the Soviet Union Through the most significant events of his time, we discover the legacy of terror and destruction that Stalin bequeathed to his people. On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin died in Moscow. His funeral was that of a demigod. Last irony of one of the worst criminals in the history of the 20th century, who brought misery to his people while creating a collective admiration. During more than 30 years of absolute rule, millions of people died. With Stalin's policy the standard of living fell. The poverty of the early 1930s was evident on the streets of Moscow. In his labor re- education camps, better known as the Gulag, he imprisoned 18 million Russians, turning them into slaves. Machiavellian and paranoid, Stalin invented the impeachment trial, where sentences were set before the start of the hearing. He starved 7,000,000 peasants to death as punishment for refusing his revolution. He had fooled the entire world through false propaganda campaigns. During World War II, Adolf Hitler set out to destroy Stalin. On June 16, 1941, three million soldiers attacked the USSR. The Nazis took over the city of Stalingrad, which was finally liberated by Russian troops in November 1942. In February 1943 the German troops surrendered. With this victory, Stalin became the first leader to defeat Hitler, which gave him the recognition of the international community. Poster Comment: When I worked for Illinois State Highways, we had a Sudeten-German foreman. He volunteered for the Waffen-SS after Germany annexed the Sudetenland. His father protested to the camp commander that he was being treated too harshly in boot camp. He was arrested as a "dissenter" and sent to the camps in Germany. The last I heard he still had not found a trace of him. He was fighting the Russians and was captured. He was riding on a prison wagon with a female guard. She fell asleep and dropped her rifle. He jumped off the wagon, retrieved the rifle and awakened her. She gave him a big kiss and told him, "If I had lost my rifle they would have killed me." He was one of the few to be repatriated. We were filling potholes one time and he told us, "In the old country we didn't have potholes because they used cobblestones." On a different day I was on a different operation and I heard him calling on the radio for more asphalt. I grabbed the mic and said, "Ya! In ze old country ve had za cobblestones." The guy that was in the pick up with him told me, 'When that came over the air he said, "Dammit!" ROTFLMAO! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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