Mastodawn

YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. - sh.itjust.works

Matvei Bronstein: Theorical physicist. Pioneer of quantum gravity. Arrested, accused of fictional “terroristic” activity and shot in 1938 Lev Shubnikov: Experimental physicist. Accused on false charges. Executed Adrian Piotrovsky: Russian dramaturge. Accused on false charges of treason. Executed. Nikolai Bukharin: Leader of the Communist revolution. Member of the Politburo. Falsely accused of treason. Executed. General Alexander Egorov: Marshal of the Soviet Union. Commander of the Red Army Southern Front. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Arrested, accused on false charges, executed. General Mikhail Tukhachevsky Supreme Marshal of the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the Red Napoleon. Arrested, accused on fake charges. Executed. Grigory Zinoviev: Chairman of the Communist International Movement. Member of the Soviet Politburo. Accused of treason and executed. Even the secret police themselves were not safe: Genrikh Yagoda : Right-hand of Joseph Stalin. Head of the NKD Secret Police. He spied on everyone in Russia and jailed thousands of innocents. Yagoda was arrested and executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda] Nikolai Yezhov : Appointed head of the NKD Secret Police after the death of Yagoda. Arrested on fake charges, executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov] Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 600 000 people were killed and over one million people were deported to Gulags in Siberia.

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Gammelfisch Mar 19

The Top 5 murderers, ranked.

Mao

Stalin,

Hitler

King Leopold II (Belgian Congo)

Tojo

Stalin was a paranoid fucknut and did not care about his son held in a German POW camp. He refused to trade General von Paulus after the Battle of Stalingrad for his own child.

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Allero

Paulus commanded a 360.000 strong army that was previously responsible for many atrocities, including mass shootings of Jews and Ukrainians at Babi Yar - one of the cruelest scenes of the war. His capture in the rank of field marshal was a major blow to the reputation of Wehrmacht command. He made the situation even worse for Hitler by switching sides and going for the Soviets, helping the anti-Hitler propaganda machine in the German ranks.

Conventional morals may question Stalin’s decision, and family values were strong in Stalin’s USSR. But he was also responsible for millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians, and any blow to Wehrmacht meant closer victory and less victims. Someone else’s sons and daughters.