Sharu said:
Its funny how this kind of 'propaganda' is widely spread! If you do some historical researches and not 'statistical estimates' you'd see the following: 1. It was not personally Stalin who was killng people, funny, yes? It was a court decisions. 2. From 1921 till 1953 on the political reasons was judges around 4 mln people. Around 800 000 get a death penalty. (Roughly 25000 per year). Also it is an estimates that around 600 000 died in prisons. So total quantity is 1.4 mln (in 32 years!) 3. In 1926 USSR population was 147 mln., in 1937 — 162 mln., in 1939 - 170,5 mln. How this figures corellates with killing of tens of millions people? If you are interested - I'm Russian and maybe i can show you other side of this coin. :) |
I'm not talking about only judicial executions, I'm also talking about deaths in Gulags, deaths from manmade famines and deaths during forced resettlement.
However I'm not going to get into a debate on whether Stalin murdered millions any more than I'd get into a debate on whether Hitler did - both are verifiable historical fact and I find revisionism on either of them somewhat distasteful.
