The Soviet Union
The butchers who ran the Soviet Union
killed between
25 million
[The Black Book of Communism]
and
60 million
[Rudolph J. Rummel]
innocent humans - men, women and little children.
The monster
Stalin
may be the greatest mass killer of all time.
The home of evil.
Lenin's tomb,
Red Square, Moscow, Russia.
From
here.
- Russian history
(also here)
- Soviet Union history
(also here)
- The 1905 revolution
- The 1917 revolution
- A disaster.
A tragedy for Russia and the world that the Reds won.
An appalling step backwards into tyranny.
An appalling crime to replace the Tsar with Lenin's
murderous tyranny,
a thousand times more murderous
than the Tsar's regime.
- The Lenin / Trotsky period, 1917-24
- Some people think Lenin and Trotsky were "not as bad" as Stalin,
that the 1917 revolution was not criminal from the start,
but only became criminal later.
This is one of the greatest lies in history.
Lenin and Trotsky killed
4 million people
- men, women and children
- by mass executions, death camps, and state-caused famine.
See [The Black Book of Communism]
for a good introduction to their genocide,
which started as soon as they got into power in 1917.
- The resistance
-
All across the Russian countryside in 1917-22,
there were riots and uprisings as heroic peasants
tried desperately to hold on to their freedom.
They were well aware of the nature of the scum that had taken over their country.
These forgotten heroes were killed by the million.
Their families - men, women and children - were executed
or sent to death camps.
Their villages were burnt,
and even bombed with chemical weapons
by the monsters Lenin and Trotsky.
- Russian White Guard and Anti-Communism movement
-
The Tambov rebellion of 1920
- It is true that the anti-communist resistance came in many forms,
from liberal democrats to socialist anarchists to Jew-hating nationalists.
The latter carried out hundreds of
pogroms of Jews.
In some areas, the Russian civil war was a conflict
between communism and democracy.
In other areas, it was a conflict between communism and fascism.
But no crimes by (some of) their enemies
can justify the crimes of Lenin and Trotsky.
- The famine
- The Bolsheviks destroyed Russia's economy.
By 1920 the ruble had lost 96 percent of its value.
-
Lenin and Trotsky's oppression became ferocious
as the cities ran out of food
due to the collapse of the economy, caused by themselves
and their stupid Marxist ideas.
Innocent rural Russia was robbed of its food
and butchered
and starved
by the parasitical (literally) urban communists.
-
The Bolsheviks started a massive program of confiscating the food
of the countryside, and starved them into submission.
The monsters
Lenin and Trotsky deliberately started a famine
as a political weapon.
They caused the massive famine of 1921-2,
deliberately killing 2.5 million men, women and
little children, according to
[Rudolph J. Rummel],
or 5 million,
according to
[The Black Book of Communism].
-
The genocide of the Cossacks in 1919
-
The Red Terror in Russia,
Sergei Melgunov, 1925
- about the early Bolshevik atrocities, under Lenin.
- The Stalin period, 1924-53
-
[The Black Book of Communism, Ch.7]
shows that even in 1930 there was still heroic peasant resistance
to collectivization.
Brave peasants even managed to kill hundreds of
Soviet officials.
But
the Soviet state
slaughtered 6 million of them.
- The Ukrainian Famine
(and here)
- In 1932-3, Stalin and his butchers
deliberately starved to death
around
7 million utterly innocent
men, women and little children,
mainly in the Ukraine.
Their food was stolen by the government,
and every measure was taken to prevent them obtaining any food.
-
In World War Two, the west was allied with this
sick genocidal monster
- the worst case of realpolitik
in the history
of the free world.
- The Stalin terror
(and here)
-
The Great Terror,
Robert Conquest, 1968 -
estimates that
5 million people were murdered
in 1935-8 alone.
-
Rudolph J. Rummel
(and here)
estimates
4 million people murdered,
with a possible high of
11 million people
(see here
and here),
in 1935-8 alone.
- Gendercide
- World War Two
-
Not so well known, and hard to believe, is that
even in World War Two,
the Soviet state was still the no.1 killer of Soviet citizens,
with the Nazis no.2.
Even in wartime, Stalin's regime was killing more
of its own people than even an invading barbaric army could.
- In general,
totalitarian government is more murderous than all-out war.
- It is also often forgotten that
the Soviet Union was allied with the Nazis for the first 2 years of the war.
-
The Soviet famine of 1946-7
(1 to 1.5 million dead)
was again caused by the Soviet government.
- Pravda
was founded in 1912
and became the official state newspaper after 1917
when freedom of the press
was abolished.
Pravda
(which, comically, means "Truth")
supported everything the Soviet butchers did from 1917 to 1989.
- The comic book
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
(1930)
sounds pretty accurate in its description of the brutal Soviet state.
Bizarrely, the Tintin author was later embarrassed by it.
I don't see why.
He got it right first time.
Just like the
national socialist butchers,
the
international socialist butchers
killed millions of innocents, men, women and little children.
It is incredible that anyone still defends these monsters.
The leaders
- Leaders of the Soviet Union
(also here)
- Lenin
(also here),
1917-24.
- Lenin
killed 4 million people
- men, women and little children.
He is the 5th greatest murderer of the 20th century
(after Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Chiang Kai-shek).
- The hate-filled mass murderer Lenin,
with his rage against everyone decent in society,
his drive to kill and destroy everything that generations of
tolerant and hard-working people had built,
and his staggering barbarism,
set the tone for every communist regime that followed in the world.
- Even today, unbelievably, there are people who
openly call themselves Marxist-Leninist
and openly admire Lenin.
- Trotsky
(also here),
1917-24.
-
As leader of the Red Army
in Lenin's war on the peasants,
Trotsky was
a mass murderer.
He was Lenin's prime henchman in the killing of
4 million innocent people - men, women and children.
- Trotsky supported the killing of
all political opponents of the regime -
including
campaigners for liberal western democracy.
Trotsky supported
the extermination of the bourgeoisie.
- There is some justice in the fact that he was
executed by Stalin in Mexico in 1940,
but not much.
He should have been put on trial first,
and then executed.
- Even today, unbelievably, there are people who
openly follow this disgusting mass murderer,
and see him as some kind of "alternative" to Stalin.
-
The Trotsky Museum in Mexico
- the equivalent of a museum to Hess or Eichmann.
- Stalin
(also here),
1924-53.
- Stalin is
perhaps the most evil human being that ever lived.
- Stalin
killed 42 million people
- men, women and little children.
In all of history,
only Mao could possibly have killed more.
-
Khrushchev
(also here),
1953-64.
- Brezhnev
(also here),
1964-82.
- Brezhnev killed around
2 million people
(see below).
- He was also
the imperialist Butcher of
Moldova
1950-52,
and
the Butcher of
The Prague Spring 1968.
- Rudolph J. Rummel
estimates 7 million dead
after Stalin,
mostly through camps.
His estimates for the camps alone
break down as:
- 950,000 dead 1954-5 (Khrushchev)
- 3.1 million dead 1956-60 (Khrushchev)
- 1.6 million dead 1961-70 (Khrushchev, Brezhnev)
- 780,000 dead 1970-82 (Brezhnev)
- 200,000 dead 1983-7 (Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev)
Other butchers
See also:
For 70 years, occupying countries, enslaving their peoples.
A brutal totalitarian empire.
Genocide, gulags, mass shootings, famine, deportations, tyranny.
Sadistic torture to death in interrogation.
Gang-rape of women prisoners.
Mass rape of civilian women in war.
The gassing of prisoners.
Starvation to death of prisoners.
A police state, run by fear.
No human rights.
No civil liberties.
No freedom of speech.
No freedom of religion.
A one-party state, tolerating no opposition or criticism.
Threatening the free world with nuclear weapons.
Threatening Western Europe with invasion and slavery or extinction.
The Soviet Union was truly a curse upon the earth.
-
The Soviet Union: The World No.1 Terror State
- interview with Ion Mihai Pacepa,
on Soviet support for
Iraq, Libya,
Che Guevara, Castro,
Syria, Nasser, the PLO,
European left-wing terrorists,
etc.
- reminding us that during the Cold War, it was not obvious
who was going to win.
-
Complaints about the U.S. are often a form of "Freudian Projection"
and misdirected hatred against the wrong target.
The U.S. is described today by the left as an evil empire,
Great Satan, no.1 terror state, and so on.
Such a state did exist, and thanks to the bravery of western men and women
it was brought down before it could destroy the world.
It was the Soviet Union.
- The KGB
- The Gulags
-
The Gulag:
What We Know Now and Why It Matters
by Anne Applebaum
- Lenin started the Gulag system.
About
25 million innocent people
- men, women and little children -
were deported to the camps
or to exile in deserts or tundra.
Millions died there.
- As to why it matters, Applebaum says with sadness:
"I wrote my book about the Gulag
not "so that it will not happen again," as the cliché
has it, but because it will happen again."
- Dissidents
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(and here)
-
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
-
The Gulag Archipelago
details, among other material, the following:
- The Tsars in 1820-1906
killed about 1000 people
(Chapters 8 and 11).
[The Black Book of Communism]
roughly agrees, saying that in 1825-1905, the Tsars executed about 200 people,
and in
the revolutionary period of 1906-10 the Tsars
executed about 3700 people.
-
The glorious 1917 Bolshevik revolution liberated the Russian people
from the appalling tyranny of the Tsars.
The Bolsheviks in 1917-24 killed
4 million people
and then in 1929-53
killed
40 million more.
-
The classic, 19th century period of the Tsars
was a golden age
of tolerance, freedom and civilization
compared to the tyranny that followed it.
-
The Soviet government
caused the Volga famine,
and then confiscated church charity collected for it
(Chapter 9).
Men, women and children starving to death
was of no concern to them.
- As a sort of black comic relief,
Chapter 10 shows that Lenin devised plans to execute
the hordes expected trying to get into
the glorious Soviet workers' paradise.
But no such people ever came.
- Later in life Solzhenitsyn became a religious and Russian nationalist zealot,
a sour critic of America and Western democracy,
and a supporter of the new Russian nationalist dictator Putin.
But none of this can take away from the brilliance and bravery of his early anti-Soviet works.
A massive and unacknowledged
ethnic cleansing and democide of Germans took place in the Soviet sphere in
Eastern Europe after victory in 1945.
The worst killing was in Poland and Czechoslovakia.
- Soviet World War II crimes
(and here
and here)
- The Katyn Massacre
- The mass execution of Poles by the Soviets in WW2.
- Raoul Wallenberg
- This hero, who saved thousands of Jews in WW2,
was murdered after the war by the Soviets.
- The Red Army carried out an orgy of rape
of millions of innocent civilian women
and children
as it swept across Eastern Europe in 1944-45.
The rapes carried on for several years after the war.
Maybe 200,000 rape victims died.
-
Summary of
communist Poland and Czechoslovakia's postwar
genocide against German civilians, late 1940s.
- Rudolph J. Rummel
- Rummel estimates that:
- Poland killed 1,600,000 people in democide, 1945-8.
- Czechoslovakia killed 200,000 people in democide, 1945-8.
- Expulsion of Germans after World War II
-
An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945
talks about the role of Jews in the post-war democide in Poland.
Maybe it exaggerates their role. I don't know.
I would imagine almost all the killers were mainstream Poles.
Again, exploring this story does not mean one is denying (or even downplaying)
the horror of the Holocaust.
The
imperialist Soviet Union brutally occupied
the countries of Eastern Europe
for over 40 years.
All totalitarian philosophies tend to be imperialist.
- From the very start in 1917, the Bolsheviks were brutal,
ruthless imperialists.
After the 1917 revolution,
the occupied states of the Russian Tsarist empire hoped for liberation.
The Bolsheviks immediately crushed these hopes,
and established the most brutal imperialism in
Russian history, including
7 million Ukrainians
deliberately killed by Stalin to break their resistance,
and the deportation of the entire population of
Chechnya.
-
The empire expanded horrifically from 1939 onwards,
as the Soviets attacked Poland and the Baltic states.
Stalin deported and executed hundreds of thousands of people,
and subjugated the countries under tyrannical Soviet rule.
-
With the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Soviet empire kept expanding westwards
until the Soviets occupied half of Europe.
I am old enough to remember the Soviets whining
about the imaginary
"imperialism" of the West
while their jackboot stamped on European freedom.
- Crushed rebellions for freedom:
-
Trust Reagan
to sum it up in 2 words
- the "Evil Empire"
- the best description of the Soviet Union ever.
"Evil",
for otherwise the word
"evil" has no meaning.
And "Empire", calling a spade a spade,
and infuriating all those
western sympathisers with and apologists for
the Soviets.
Even today, the whines about imaginary western
"imperialism" are still alive on the left
- a left that ignored the real, brutal
and entirely non-imaginary Soviet empire.
-
The "House of Terror" museum, Budapest, Hungary.
No trade unions
As well as being imperialist,
the Soviet Union
oppressed the workers
and banned workers' trade unions.
- As soon as they got into power in 1917, from the very start
the Bolsheviks under Lenin and Trotsky
abolished the right to strike,
abolished the free press,
abolished the right to freedom of religion,
abolished elections and all political opposition,
and executed tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children
in a sea of blood that Russia had not seen for centuries.
The Bolsheviks never believed in freedom.
They never believed in human rights.
-
The killing of the workers at Astrakhan, 1919
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The killing of the workers at Kronstadt, 1921
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The brave
Solidarity trade union
in Poland
was in the 1980s alone
as a free workers' group
inside the Soviet bloc.
"The Germans took a somber decision. Upon the western front they had from the beginning used the most terrible means of offense at their disposal. They had employed poison gas on the largest scale and had invented the 'Flammenwerfer.' Nevertheless, it was with a sense of awe that they turned upon Russia the most grisly of weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed train like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia."
- Winston Churchill nails it yet again,
on Lenin's return to Russia
from exile in 1917.
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