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==Maoist Rebel Nonsense, AKA Good Ol' Stalin Denialism!!== | ==Maoist Rebel Nonsense, AKA Good Ol' Stalin Denialism!!== | ||
| − | MRN claims that deaths under the Stalinist purges were widely exaggerated beyond logical bounds. MRN claims Yelstin’s opening of Soviet documents show only a total of 775,866 executions. Unfortunately for MRN, his statistic leaves out ethnic cleansing committed by the | + | MRN claims that deaths under the Stalinist purges were widely exaggerated beyond logical bounds. MRN claims Yelstin’s opening of Soviet documents show only a total of 775,866 executions. Unfortunately for MRN, his statistic leaves out ethnic cleansing committed by the NKVD <ref>Montefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. ISBN 0-7538-1766-7.</ref>, Famines which claimed 5-10 million lives <ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akRdu1cuBPKg&refer=europe</ref>. MRN also asserts that the total number of executions is less than deaths caused by the CIA, but the CIA committing crimes does not mean Stalin was not a genocidal dictator. MRN then claims that the most executions occurred during 1937-1938 period, which is accurate. However, MRN then uses alleged anticommunist activities by Germany as justification for these executions. He then asserts that many had their death sentences revoked, for which he provides no citation and then speculates on total number of deaths based on data from deaths in one purge. Historically, we have no way of knowing the exact number of people executed by Stalin’s purges, but we do know that the purges happened and we know the minimum number of executions (775,866). According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 persons, of whom 681,692 were shot. <ref>Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) byRichard Pipes, pg 67</ref> Some Historians, such as Richard Conquest, claim that the numbers declassified by the Russians are inaccurate and the total number of deaths may be twice as high as reported. <ref>Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia: 1934-1941. - book reviews by Robert Conquest, 1996, National Review</ref> |
==Stalin’s Role in the Great Purge== | ==Stalin’s Role in the Great Purge== | ||
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Maoist Rebel News is the moniker of YouTube blogger Jason Unruhe, a controversial figure in the communist community known for making some rather...... interesting claims concerning the history of certain communist leaders, and is one of only a few people truly repugnant enough to be a North Korea apologist.
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Maoist Rebel Nonsense, AKA Good Ol' Stalin Denialism!!
MRN claims that deaths under the Stalinist purges were widely exaggerated beyond logical bounds. MRN claims Yelstin’s opening of Soviet documents show only a total of 775,866 executions. Unfortunately for MRN, his statistic leaves out ethnic cleansing committed by the NKVD [1], Famines which claimed 5-10 million lives [2]. MRN also asserts that the total number of executions is less than deaths caused by the CIA, but the CIA committing crimes does not mean Stalin was not a genocidal dictator. MRN then claims that the most executions occurred during 1937-1938 period, which is accurate. However, MRN then uses alleged anticommunist activities by Germany as justification for these executions. He then asserts that many had their death sentences revoked, for which he provides no citation and then speculates on total number of deaths based on data from deaths in one purge. Historically, we have no way of knowing the exact number of people executed by Stalin’s purges, but we do know that the purges happened and we know the minimum number of executions (775,866). According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 persons, of whom 681,692 were shot. [3] Some Historians, such as Richard Conquest, claim that the numbers declassified by the Russians are inaccurate and the total number of deaths may be twice as high as reported. [4]
Stalin’s Role in the Great Purge
Even with MRN’s statistics, Stalin is still directly responsible for the deaths of 40,000 prisoners, 90% of whom are confirmed executed. Stalin himself signed 357 execution lists over the course of the Great Purge to make this possible. [5] Even if we accept MRN’s stats, Stalin is still responsible for the death of 36,000 individuals, which is enough to consider Stalin a mass murderer and not someone to glorify. Stalin personally directed Nikolia Yezhov to torture individuals arrested until confessions were extracted. Recent documents have revealed the following Stalin quote: “Isn’t it time to squeeze this gentleman and force him to report on his dirty little business? Where is he: in a prison or a hotel?"[6]
The Famines
The Ukrainian Famine, or Holodomor, was a famine caused by failures of Stalinist farm collectivization that claimed the lives of between 2.4 million[7] and 7.5 million [8].
Footnotes
- ↑ Montefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. ISBN 0-7538-1766-7.
- ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akRdu1cuBPKg&refer=europe
- ↑ Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) byRichard Pipes, pg 67
- ↑ Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia: 1934-1941. - book reviews by Robert Conquest, 1996, National Review
- ↑ http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/soviet/famine/ellman1933.pdf
- ↑ Marc Jansen, Nikita Vasilʹevich Petrov. Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940.Hoover Institution Press, 2002.
- ↑ Snyder 2010, p. 53. "One demographic retrojection suggests a figure of 2.5 million famine deaths for Soviet Ukraine. This is too close to the recorded figure of excess deaths, which is about 2.4 million. The latter figure must be substantially low, since many deaths were not recorded. Another demographic calculation, carried out on behalf of the authorities of independent Ukraine, provides the figure of 3.9 million dead. The truth is probably in between these numbers, where most of the estimates of respectable scholars can be found. It seems reasonable to propose a figure of approximately 3.3 million deaths by starvation and hunger-related disease in Soviet Ukraine in 1932–1933".
- ↑ David R. Marples. Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine. p.50