Joseph Stalin

I will refute next round, as I am lazy. I will first present my case: C1: Stalin killed millions of people, and sent many to labor camps Sub point: labor camps Millions of Russians where sent to labor camps under Stalin. [1] Also many people where exiled to empty (remote)areas of Russia. [1] The Gulag was the agency in charge of the soviet labor camps. [2] He was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. [3] Now, the amount of prisoners in Gulag: source: http://en.wikipedia.org... Note by the end of his rule the prisoners where on the highest seen, and increased throughout his whole rule except from about 1942-45. Note it goes on a mega increase for the rest of his life, barbaric is it not? Sub point: Millions murdered: He was actually assigned to get rid of "exepel" the peopel who didn't agree with him.[3] [4] [5] Hpassed laws saying that being a anti-communit was now a crime. [3] [6] Most leaders of the Red army where executed as Stalin was paranod. [3] [7] 90% of all generals and 80% of all colonels were killed. [7] Also targeted ethnic minorities, he killef 110,000 poles. [3] [8] Many americans that where living in the USSR where also killed. [3] [9] In 1937 he signed a law that killed 40,000 people. [3] [10] Soviet arghives say stalin kileld 400,000 people, [11] western people belive the data is inacurate and th enumber is likely higher. [12] [13] SOme estimates say he killed up to 20,000,000 people! [14] This estimate says he killes 43,000,000 people! [15] (I trust 15) 39,000,000 of those 43,000,000 were from lethal force, the rest are probably from labor camps. [15] C2: Famines Stalin created a famine in 1932/3. [16] "The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization." [17] "The death toll from the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine has been estimated between six million and seven million. According to a Soviet author, "Before they died, people often lost their senses and ceased to be human beings." Yet one of Stalin's lieutenants in Ukraine stated in 1933 that the famine was a great success. It showed the peasants "who is the master here. It cost millions of lives, but the collective farm system is here to stay.".. " [17] Sounds evil... SO yep, famine cuased 7 million deaths. [17] [18] These people where deprive the food they made! [18] That is cruel and sick. How was stalin good? C3: 3rd world country The people under stalin lost freedom. [19] "Stalin forced the people to set up collective farms that were owned by the government." [20] That is loss of the reedom of private ownership. He also called formany indistrial and energy increases, and if the people didn't follow him, then they where exiled. [20] That is loss of what you want to do. Russia, never had freedom in those times, it was from czarist oppression to a mighty authoritarian socialist state that owned you. [21] "Education was strictly controlled by the state. In 1932, a rigid programme of discipline and education was introduced. " [19] Basically you had no choice n what you learned or how, and all you learned was disipline loyalty poems. Guess what? poor edication ----> only the rich and elte have power.=, poor education = poor economy. ussia had astruggling economy and when entering the cold war, which stalin started, they abandoned their economic troubles. [22] [23] Their GP per capia was only about 9000$. [24] [25] They where a third world country. The russian GDP was about 75 billion $ in 1938. [26] Ours was 86 billion. [27] Their population was 170.5. [28] They where a 3rd world country with struggling economics, millions of people starving, people being killed, and people in work camps. Stalin good guy? Not. Vote Con. I need less sources:. Getty, Rittersporn, Zemskov. Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-War Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence. The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Oct., 1993), pp. 1017–1049. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, 2007 [4] Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. By Robert Gellately. 2007. Knopf. [5] Tucker, Robert C. (1992). Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928–1941. W. W. Norton & Company. [6]+ (p.195, Carell, P. (1964) Hitler's War on Russia: The Story of the German Defeat in the East. translated from German by Ewald Osers, B.I. Publications New Delhi, 1974 (first Indian edition) [7] Simon Sebag Montefiore. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Knopf, 2004 [8] http://news.bbc.co.uk... [9] Europe-Asia Studies, Routledge. Vol. 59, No. 4, June 2007, 663–693. PDF file [10] Barry McLoughlin; Kevin McDermott(eds) (4 February 2003). [11] Rosefielde, Stephen, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 48, No. 6, 1996 [12] "comment on wheatcroft" Robert Conquest [13] http://www.distributedrepublic.net... 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