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Pasternak later said, "If, in a bad dream, we had seen all the horrors in store for us after the war, we should not have been sorry to see Stalin fall, together with Hitler. Then, an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
Pasternak later said, "If, in a bad dream, we had seen all the horrors in store for us after the war, we should not have been sorry to see Stalin fall, together with Hitler. Then, an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
"The Central Committee Plenum passed a resolution in 1935 declaring an end to the purges of 1933. Sergey Kirov, leader of the Leningrad section of the Communist party, was murdered in 1934. In response, Stalin's Great Purge saw one third of the Communist party executed or sentenced to work in labor campsits. The most prolific period of executions occurred during the Great Purge, from 1936-1938. An estimated 4 million people were executed and millions more were sent to prisons. Stalin induced terror among his own party and justified it with Marxist principles. Victims of the Great Purge were placed in a losing scenario regardless of what view they took. They were required to confess their transgressions towards the party and name accomplices. Although most were innocent, many chose to name accomplices either in hopes of gaining freedom or just to stop their torture by interrogators, which was ubiquitous at the time. The prisoner most often was still punished the same whether they denied their crimes, admitted them and provided no accomplices, or admitted them and provided accomplices. It made little difference as to their fate. This can be described as a one-shot, n-person prisoner's dilemma. The punishment remained the same regardless of the terms of confession."
Funny how we don't have movie after movie after movie, for decades now, breaking down and explaining every aspect of this horrific time period. Sounds gristly and interesting. Wonder why Hollywood isn't interested? They'd surely make millions as these stories are virtually unknown in the US.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Lyushkov
These two alone would spawn a few memorable biopics, one would think.
Also, there was a famous author named Boris Slutsky...for any shill opening a new account somewhere online and in need of a good handle.
antifa and hollywood are hot for these purges because they believe they will be the ones carrying out these purges should the commies ever win.
They are delusional, but China is who brings the danger. So far, they are sliming their way throughout our society, and Australia's too. They must be kicked out of universities, banned from giving money, banned from buying real estate, banned from investing in our businesses.
Yeah, but the point is that, ultimately, a Commie is a Commie is a Commie, no matter what national flavor or veneer.
And while I'm at it, it seems to me that their favorite weapon against the masses, as opposed to party members, is deliberate famine and starvation: Stalin starved to death 20 million Ukrainians; Mao approximately 65 million Chinese (low ball); Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge, 500k - 1.5 million Cambodians; and Maduro in Venezuela apparently isn't done yet. IOW, wherever the Commies go, famine and starvation are sure to follow. Hmm. One of the four horses of the Apocalypse is famine. Is the Antichrist a Communist, them?
They want to be part of what in Soviet history was if I remember correctly, the '10,000'.
These were the people sent out to capture and kill anyone the personally saw as a threat to the regime. Judge Dredd style authority. The Antifa fan boy dream.
They obviously don't read the accounts as its a conveyor belt of executors executing their boss the executor who executed his boss, etc. Stalin would set a guy up with three assassins then kill the three assassins and all their chauffeurs and family members to get rid of any evidence. If you haven't already, look up the murder of Stalin's longtime friend, Sergey Kirov, which some claim Stalin was responsible for and used as a pretext to launch the Great Purge, in which about a million people perished.
I had heard the numbers but its not the same as reading the details...or, perhaps, seeing a movie...which would really help flesh it out, so to speak.
Anyways, they also probably think of themselves as working class and above communist reproach. As they fiddlefart away in their fancy wood shops, $2,000 apartments and indulge in careers via M&P bribing college entrance counselors.