Lazarski UniversityWarsaw
Stalinist Great Purges and its victims
By: Andrii Dykyi:
Western Civilization II
Course Coordinator:. Krzysztof Lazarski
«You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves»
Joseph StalinUnion was one of the greatest states in the world; USSR united fifteen republics under its «red wings». Fifteen different nationalities and cultures were under one red flag. It is hard to maintain and keep in peace all these countries with their citizens, but not for the Communist Party. 1917 is named as a beginning of a new epoch of transformation from capitalism to socialism, from monarchy to totalitarian regime. The actual year for the creation of USSR was 1922 when Russia, Transcaucasia, Ukraine and Byelorussia became the formal founders of The Soviet Socialistic republic. Totalitarian regime is famous for its leaders Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Krushchev, Leaonid Brezhnev and others. However, in my essay I would like to focus your attention on Stalin `s period of ruling the country, Stalinist Great Purges and the victims of those« dark » times., The Great Terror during Stalin `s regime took a lot of humans lives, destroy millions of human destinies and families. Some sources give the number around hundred million people, which were prosecuted, send to prison, or tortured. Others give the amount of sixty or eighty millions. In order to understand the situation of that time and feel that atmosphere. Similarly we have to operate with more precise numbers of murders. Before one of the meeting of the secret Communist Party meeting in Kreml, Nikita Krushchev asked Minister of Interior Affairs - Segio Krygova, General Prosecutor of USSR - Roman Rydenko, and Minister of Justice - Konstantina Gorshenka, present the official evidences and reports of amount of victims of Stalin `s Great Terror. In February in 1954 they send him an official letter with all data about that times. «According to data of Minister of Interior Affairs of USSR, from 1921 till the present time the counter-revolutionary crimes were condemned by the OGPU, NKVD, The Special Meeting, The Military Collegium, Courts and Tribunals 3,777,380, those who were sentenced to death penalty - 642,980, the content of the camps and prisons for a term of 25 years and below - 2,369,220 people, to exile and expulsion - 765180. The total number of those who were arrested were approximately 2,900,000 people ... »( The Myth of Stalin `s« Great Terror »- part of the information was against Russia .) totalitarian soviet stalin ideology whole picture of the situation is enormously horrible, the Great Purge have been touched all levels of society. And now it created a « national fear » instead of «blind ideology». By «blind ideology» I mean that people believed in everything what was said. But now we can observe that there are hundred of millions of victims, we can not be sure for one hundred present about that, because all written statistics are still secret or destroyed by KGB. It is hard to write about the totalitarian regime with dictatorship especially when it is about USSR because all information...
