Repressive policies of the Stalinist regime. Victims of political repression - who are they?

At the liar's contest

Archival documents say

"To the Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee

Comrade Khrushchev N.S.


Prosecutor General R. Rudenko
Minister of Internal Affairs S. Kruglov
Minister of Justice K. Gorshenin"

Number of prisoners

Prisoner mortality

Special camps

Notes:

6. Ibid. P. 26.

9. Ibid. P. 169

24. Ibid. L.53.

25. Ibid.

26. Ibid. D. 1155. L.2.

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The results of Stalin's rule speak for themselves. In order to devalue them, to form a negative assessment of the Stalin era in the public consciousness, fighters against totalitarianism, willy-nilly, have to escalate the horrors, attributing monstrous atrocities to Stalin.

At the liar's contest

In an accusatory rage, the writers of anti-Stalin horror stories seem to be competing to see who can tell the biggest lies, vying with each other to name the astronomical numbers of those killed at the hands of the “bloody tyrant.” Against their background, dissident Roy Medvedev, who limited himself to a “modest” figure of 40 million, looks like some kind of black sheep, a model of moderation and conscientiousness:

“Thus, the total number of victims of Stalinism reaches, according to my calculations, a figure of approximately 40 million people.”

And in fact, it is undignified. Another dissident, the son of the repressed Trotskyist revolutionary A.V. Antonov-Ovseenko, without a shadow of embarrassment, names twice the figure:

“These calculations are very, very approximate, but I am sure of one thing: the Stalinist regime bled the people dry, destroying more than 80 million of its best sons.”

Professional “rehabilitators” led by former member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee A. N. Yakovlev are already talking about 100 million:

“According to the most conservative estimates of rehabilitation commission specialists, our country lost about 100 million people during the years of Stalin’s rule. This number includes not only the repressed themselves, but also members of their families doomed to death and even children who could have been born, but were never born.”

However, according to Yakovlev, the notorious 100 million includes not only direct “victims of the regime,” but also unborn children. But the writer Igor Bunich without hesitation claims that all these “100 million people were mercilessly exterminated.”

However, this is not the limit. The absolute record was set by Boris Nemtsov, who announced on November 7, 2003 in the “Freedom of Speech” program on the NTV channel about 150 million people allegedly lost by the Russian state after 1917.

Who are these fantastically ridiculous figures, eagerly replicated by the Russian and foreign media, intended for? For those who have forgotten how to think for themselves, who are accustomed to uncritically accepting on faith any nonsense coming from television screens.

It’s easy to see the absurdity of the multimillion-dollar numbers of “victims of repression.” It is enough to open any demographic directory and, picking up a calculator, make simple calculations. For those who are too lazy to do this, I will give a small illustrative example.

According to the population census conducted in January 1959, the population of the USSR was 208,827 thousand people. By the end of 1913, 159,153 thousand people lived within the same borders. It is easy to calculate that the average annual population growth of our country in the period from 1914 to 1959 was 0.60%.

Now let's see how the population of England, France and Germany grew in those same years - countries that also took an active part in both world wars.

So, the rate of population growth in the Stalinist USSR turned out to be almost one and a half times higher than in Western “democracies,” although for these states we excluded the extremely unfavorable demographic years of the 1st World War. Could this have happened if the “bloody Stalinist regime” had destroyed 150 million or at least 40 million inhabitants of our country? Of course not!

Archival documents say

To find out the true number of those executed under Stalin, it is not at all necessary to engage in fortune telling on coffee grounds. It is enough to familiarize yourself with the declassified documents. The most famous of them is a memo addressed to N. S. Khrushchev dated February 1, 1954:

"To the Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee

Comrade Khrushchev N.S.

In connection with signals received by the CPSU Central Committee from a number of individuals about illegal convictions for counter-revolutionary crimes in past years by the OGPU Collegium, NKVD troikas, and the Special Meeting. By the Military Collegium, courts and military tribunals and in accordance with your instructions on the need to review the cases of persons convicted of counter-revolutionary crimes and currently held in camps and prisons, we report:

According to data available from the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, for the period from 1921 to the present, 3,777,380 people were convicted of counter-revolutionary crimes by the OGPU Collegium, NKVD troikas, the Special Conference, the Military Collegium, courts and military tribunals, including:

Of the total number of those arrested, approximately, 2,900,000 people were convicted by the OGPU Collegium, NKVD troikas and the Special Conference, and 877,000 people were convicted by courts, military tribunals, the Special Collegium and the Military Collegium.


Prosecutor General R. Rudenko
Minister of Internal Affairs S. Kruglov
Minister of Justice K. Gorshenin"

As is clear from the document, in total, from 1921 to the beginning of 1954, 642,980 people were sentenced to death on political charges, 2,369,220 to imprisonment, and 765,180 to exile.

However, there are more detailed data on the number of those sentenced to death for counter-revolutionary and other especially dangerous state crimes

Thus, between 1921 and 1953, 815,639 people were sentenced to death. In total, in the years 1918–1953, 4,308,487 people were brought to criminal liability in cases of state security agencies, of which 835,194 were sentenced to capital punishment.

So, there were slightly more “repressed” than indicated in the report dated February 1, 1954. However, the difference is not too great - the numbers are of the same order.

In addition, it is quite possible that among those who received sentences on political charges there were a fair number of criminals. On one of the certificates stored in the archives, on the basis of which the above table was compiled, there is a pencil note:

“Total convicts for 1921–1938. - 2,944,879 people, of which 30% (1,062 thousand) are criminals"

In this case, the total number of “victims of repression” does not exceed three million. However, to finally clarify this issue, additional work with sources is necessary.

It should also be borne in mind that not all sentences were carried out. For example, of the 76 death sentences handed down by the Tyumen District Court in the first half of 1929, by January 1930, 46 had been changed or overturned by higher authorities, and of the remaining, only nine were carried out.

From July 15, 1939 to April 20, 1940, 201 prisoners were sentenced to capital punishment for disorganizing camp life and production. However, then for some of them the death penalty was replaced by imprisonment for terms of 10 to 15 years.

In 1934, there were 3,849 prisoners in NKVD camps who were sentenced to death and commuted to imprisonment. In 1935 there were 5671 such prisoners, in 1936 - 7303, in 1937 - 6239, in 1938 - 5926, in 1939 - 3425, in 1940 - 4037 people.

Number of prisoners

At first, the number of prisoners in forced labor camps (ITL) was relatively small. So, on January 1, 1930, it amounted to 179,000 people, on January 1, 1931 - 212,000, on January 1, 1932 - 268,700, on January 1, 1933 - 334,300, on January 1, 1934 - 510 307 people.

In addition to the ITL, there were correctional labor colonies (CLCs), where those sentenced to short terms were sent. Until the fall of 1938, the penitentiary complexes, together with the prisons, were subordinate to the Department of Places of Detention (OMP) of the NKVD of the USSR. Therefore, for the years 1935–1938, only joint statistics have been found so far. Since 1939, penal colonies were under the jurisdiction of the Gulag, and prisons were under the jurisdiction of the Main Prison Directorate (GTU) of the NKVD of the USSR.

How much can you trust these numbers? All of them are taken from the internal reports of the NKVD - secret documents not intended for publication. In addition, these summary figures are quite consistent with the initial reports; they can be broken down monthly, as well as by individual camps:

Let us now calculate the number of prisoners per capita. On January 1, 1941, as can be seen from the table above, the total number of prisoners in the USSR was 2,400,422 people. The exact population of the USSR at this time is unknown, but is usually estimated at 190–195 million.

Thus, we get from 1230 to 1260 prisoners for every 100 thousand population. On January 1, 1950, the number of prisoners in the USSR was 2,760,095 people - the maximum figure for the entire period of Stalin's reign. The population of the USSR at this time numbered 178 million 547 thousand. We get 1546 prisoners per 100 thousand population, 1.54%. This is the highest figure ever.

Let's calculate a similar indicator for the modern United States. Currently, there are two types of places of deprivation of liberty: jail - an approximate analogue of our temporary detention centers, in which those under investigation are kept, as well as convicts serving short sentences, and prison - the prison itself. At the end of 1999, there were 1,366,721 people in prisons and 687,973 in jails (see the website of the Bureau of Legal Statistics of the US Department of Justice), which gives a total of 2,054,694. The population of the United States at the end of 1999 was approximately 275 million Therefore, we get 747 prisoners per 100 thousand population.

Yes, half as much as Stalin, but not ten times. It’s somehow undignified for a power that has taken upon itself to protect “human rights” on a global scale.

Moreover, this is a comparison of the peak number of prisoners in the Stalinist USSR, which was also caused first by the civil and then by the Great Patriotic War. And among the so-called “victims of political repression” there will be a fair share of supporters of the white movement, collaborators, Hitler’s accomplices, members of the ROA, policemen, not to mention ordinary criminals.

There are calculations that compare the average number of prisoners over a period of several years.

The data on the number of prisoners in the Stalinist USSR exactly coincides with the above. According to these data, it turns out that on average for the period from 1930 to 1940, there were 583 prisoners per 100,000 people, or 0.58%. Which is significantly less than the same figure in Russia and the USA in the 90s.

What is the total number of people who were imprisoned under Stalin? Of course, if you take a table with the annual number of prisoners and sum up the rows, as many anti-Sovietists do, the result will be incorrect, since most of them were sentenced to more than a year. Therefore, it should be assessed not by the amount of those imprisoned, but by the amount of those convicted, which was given above.

How many of the prisoners were “political”?

As we see, until 1942, the “repressed” made up no more than a third of the prisoners held in the Gulag camps. And only then their share increased, receiving a worthy “replenishment” in the person of Vlasovites, policemen, elders and other “fighters against communist tyranny.” The percentage of “political” in correctional labor colonies was even smaller.

Prisoner mortality

Available archival documents make it possible to illuminate this issue.

In 1931, 7,283 people died in the ITL (3.03% of the average annual number), in 1932 - 13,197 (4.38%), in 1933 - 67,297 (15.94%), in 1934 - 26,295 prisoners (4.26%).

For 1953, data is provided for the first three months.

As we see, mortality in places of detention (especially in prisons) did not reach those fantastic values ​​that denouncers like to talk about. But still its level is quite high. It increases especially strongly in the first years of the war. As was stated in the certificate of mortality according to the NKVD OITK for 1941, compiled by the acting. Head of the Sanitary Department of the Gulag NKVD I.K. Zitserman:

Basically, mortality began to increase sharply from September 1941, mainly due to the transfer of convicts from units located in the front-line areas: from the BBK and Vytegorlag to the OITK of the Vologda and Omsk regions, from the OITK of the Moldavian SSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Leningrad region. in OITK Kirov, Molotov and Sverdlovsk regions. As a rule, a significant part of the journey of several hundred kilometers before loading into wagons was carried out on foot. Along the way, they were not at all provided with the minimum necessary food products (they did not receive all the bread and even water), as a result of such confinement, the prisoners suffered severe exhaustion, a very large % of vitamin deficiency diseases, in particular pellagra, which caused significant mortality along the route and along arrival at the respective OITKs, which were not prepared to receive a significant number of replenishments. At the same time, the introduction of reduced food standards by 25–30% (order No. 648 and 0437) with an extended working day to 12 hours, and often the absence of basic food products, even at reduced standards, could not but affect the increase in morbidity and mortality

However, since 1944, mortality has decreased significantly. By the beginning of the 1950s, in camps and colonies it fell below 1%, and in prisons - below 0.5% per year.

Special camps

Let's say a few words about the notorious Special Camps (special camps), created in accordance with Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 416-159ss of February 21, 1948. These camps (as well as the Special Prisons that already existed by that time) were supposed to concentrate all those sentenced to imprisonment for espionage, sabotage, terrorism, as well as Trotskyists, right-wingers, Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries, anarchists, nationalists, white emigrants, members of anti-Soviet organizations and groups and “individuals who pose a danger due to their anti-Soviet connections.” Prisoners of special prisons were to be used for hard physical work.

As we can see, the mortality rate of prisoners in special detention centers was only slightly higher than the mortality rate in ordinary correctional labor camps. Contrary to popular belief, the special camps were not “death camps” in which the elite of the dissident intelligentsia were supposedly exterminated; moreover, the largest contingent of their inhabitants were “nationalists” - the forest brothers and their accomplices.

Notes:

1. Medvedev R. A. Tragic statistics // Arguments and facts. 1989, February 4–10. No. 5(434). P. 6. The well-known researcher of repression statistics V.N. Zemskov claims that Roy Medvedev immediately renounced his article: “Roy Medvedev himself even before the publication of my articles (meaning Zemskov’s articles in “Arguments and Facts” starting with no. 38 for 1989. - I.P.) published in one of the issues of “Arguments and Facts” for 1989 an explanation that his article in No. 5 for the same year was invalid. Mr. Maksudov is probably not entirely aware of this story, otherwise he would hardly have undertaken to defend calculations that are far from the truth, which their author himself, having realized his mistake, publicly renounced” (Zemskov V.N. On the issue of the scale of repression in USSR // Sociological Research. 1995. No. 9. P. 121). However, in reality, Roy Medvedev did not even think of disavowing his publication. In No. 11 (440) for March 18–24, 1989, his answers to questions from a correspondent of “Arguments and Facts” were published, in which, confirming the “facts” stated in the previous article, Medvedev simply clarified that responsibility for the repressions was not the entire Communist Party as a whole, but only its leadership.

2. Antonov-Ovseenko A.V. Stalin without a mask. M., 1990. P. 506.

3. Mikhailova N. Underpants of the counter-revolution // Premier. Vologda, 2002, July 24–30. No. 28(254). P. 10.

4. Bunich I. Sword of the President. M., 2004. P. 235.

5. Population of the countries of the world / Ed. B. Ts. Urlanis. M., 1974. P. 23.

6. Ibid. P. 26.

7. GARF. F.R-9401. Op.2. D.450. L.30–65. Quote by: Dugin A.N. Stalinism: legends and facts // Slovo. 1990. No. 7. P. 26.

8. Mozokhin O. B. Cheka-OGPU Punishing sword of the dictatorship of the proletariat. M., 2004. P. 167.

9. Ibid. P. 169

10. GARF. F.R-9401. Op.1. D.4157. L.202. Quote by: Popov V.P. State terror in Soviet Russia. 1923–1953: sources and their interpretation // Domestic archives. 1992. No. 2. P. 29.

11. About the work of the Tyumen District Court. Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR of January 18, 1930 // Judicial practice of the RSFSR. 1930, February 28. No. 3. P. 4.

12. Zemskov V. N. GULAG (historical and sociological aspect) // Sociological studies. 1991. No. 6. P. 15.

13. GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D. 1155. L.7.

14. GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D. 1155. L.1.

15. Number of prisoners in correctional labor camps: 1935–1948 - GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.1155. L.2; 1949 - Ibid. D.1319. L.2; 1950 - Ibid. L.5; 1951 - Ibid. L.8; 1952 - Ibid. L.11; 1953 - Ibid. L. 17.

In penal colonies and prisons (average for the month of January):. 1935 - GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.2740. L. 17; 1936 - Ibid. L. ZO; 1937 - Ibid. L.41; 1938 -Ibid. L.47.

In the ITK: 1939 - GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.1145. L.2ob; 1940 - Ibid. D.1155. L.30; 1941 - Ibid. L.34; 1942 - Ibid. L.38; 1943 - Ibid. L.42; 1944 - Ibid. L.76; 1945 - Ibid. L.77; 1946 - Ibid. L.78; 1947 - Ibid. L.79; 1948 - Ibid. L.80; 1949 - Ibid. D.1319. L.Z; 1950 - Ibid. L.6; 1951 - Ibid. L.9; 1952 - Ibid. L. 14; 1953 - Ibid. L. 19.

In prisons: 1939 - GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.1145. L.1ob; 1940 - GARF. F.R-9413. Op.1. D.6. L.67; 1941 - Ibid. L. 126; 1942 - Ibid. L.197; 1943 - Ibid. D.48. L.1; 1944 - Ibid. L.133; 1945 - Ibid. D.62. L.1; 1946 - Ibid. L. 107; 1947 - Ibid. L.216; 1948 - Ibid. D.91. L.1; 1949 - Ibid. L.64; 1950 - Ibid. L.123; 1951 - Ibid. L. 175; 1952 - Ibid. L.224; 1953 - Ibid. D.162.L.2ob.

16. GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.1155. L.20–22.

17. Population of the countries of the world / Ed. B. Ts. Urlaisa. M., 1974. P. 23.

18. http://lenin-kerrigan.livejournal.com/518795.html | https://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Die_meisten_Gefangenen_weltweit_leben_in_US-Gef%C3%A4ngnissen

19. GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D. 1155. L.3.

20. GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.1155. L.26–27.

21. Dugin A. Stalinism: legends and facts // Slovo. 1990. No. 7. P. 5.

22. Zemskov V. N. GULAG (historical and sociological aspect) // Sociological studies. 1991. No. 7. pp. 10–11.

23. GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.2740. L.1.

24. Ibid. L.53.

25. Ibid.

26. Ibid. D. 1155. L.2.

27. Mortality in ITL: 1935–1947 - GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.1155. L.2; 1948 - Ibid. D. 1190. L.36, 36v.; 1949 - Ibid. D. 1319. L.2, 2v.; 1950 - Ibid. L.5, 5v.; 1951 - Ibid. L.8, 8v.; 1952 - Ibid. L.11, 11v.; 1953 - Ibid. L. 17.

Penal colonies and prisons: 1935–1036 - GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.2740. L.52; 1937 - Ibid. L.44; 1938 - Ibid. L.50.

ITK: 1939 - GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1. D.2740. L.60; 1940 - Ibid. L.70; 1941 - Ibid. D.2784. L.4ob, 6; 1942 - Ibid. L.21; 1943 - Ibid. D.2796. L.99; 1944 - Ibid. D.1155. L.76, 76ob.; 1945 - Ibid. L.77, 77ob.; 1946 - Ibid. L.78, 78ob.; 1947 - Ibid. L.79, 79ob.; 1948 - Ibid. L.80: 80rpm; 1949 - Ibid. D.1319. L.3, 3v.; 1950 - Ibid. L.6, 6v.; 1951 - Ibid. L.9, 9v.; 1952 - Ibid. L.14, 14v.; 1953 - Ibid. L.19, 19ob.

Prisons: 1939 - GARF. F.R-9413. Op.1. D.11. L.1ob.; 1940 - Ibid. L.2ob.; 1941 - Ibid. L. Goiter; 1942 - Ibid. L.4ob.; 1943 -Ibid., L.5ob.; 1944 - Ibid. L.6ob.; 1945 - Ibid. D.10. L.118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133; 1946 - Ibid. D.11. L.8ob.; 1947 - Ibid. L.9ob.; 1948 - Ibid. L.10ob.; 1949 - Ibid. L.11ob.; 1950 - Ibid. L.12ob.; 1951 - Ibid. L.1 3v.; 1952 - Ibid. D.118. L.238, 248, 258, 268, 278, 288, 298, 308, 318, 326ob., 328ob.; D.162. L.2ob.; 1953 - Ibid. D.162. L.4v., 6v., 8v.

28. GARF. F.R-9414. Op.1.D.1181.L.1.

29. System of forced labor camps in the USSR, 1923–1960: Directory. M., 1998. P. 52.

30. Dugin A. N. Unknown GULAG: Documents and facts. M.: Nauka, 1999. P. 47.

31. 1952 - GARF.F.R-9414. Op.1.D.1319. L.11, 11 vol. 13, 13v.; 1953 - Ibid. L. 18.

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MASS REPRESSIONS OF THE 1920s AND EARLY 1950s in the USSR - coercive measures against large groups of the population, used by the Soviet government and the Communist Party in solving economic and political problems, to suppress dissent and protests against the authorities, non-economic forced labor.

For-tro-well-are all social, political, religious, and national. groups The proceedings were carried out both in co-ordination with the criminal law, and in accordance with special regulations. on-sta-nov-le-ni-yam desks. and owls organization (ITL), exiles and exiles to distant regions of the country, deportations, deportations abroad. A large role in the development of M. r. syg-ra-whether the processes of the 1920s - in the 1950s. Osu-sche-st-v-la-li su-deb-ny-mi, and also outside-su-deb-ny-mi or-ga-na-mi (Kol-le-gi-ey GPU - OGPU , A special co-member under the OGPU - the NKVD of the USSR, through the "three", "double" - the NKVD committee and pro-ku-ra-tu-ry).


It was during the years of the civil war that the foundation began to form for the elimination of class enemies, adherents of building states along national lines, and counter-revolutionaries of all stripes. This period can be considered the beginning of the soil for future Stalinist repressions. At the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1928, Stalin voiced the principle, guided by which millions of people would be killed and repressed. It envisaged an increase in the struggle between classes as the construction of a socialist society was completed.

Stalin's repressions began in the early twenties of the twentieth century, and lasted for about thirty years. They can confidently be called centralized state policies. Thanks to the thoughtless machine created by Stalin from the internal affairs bodies and the NKVD, repressions were systematized and put on stream. Sentencing for political reasons, as a rule, was carried out in accordance with Article 58 of the code and its subparagraphs. Among them were accusations of espionage, sabotage, treason, terrorist intentions, counter-revolutionary sabotage and others.

Reasons for Stalin's repressions.

There are still many opinions on this matter. According to some of them, the repressions were carried out to clear the political space of Stalin’s opponents. Others adhere to the position based on the fact that the purpose of terror was to intimidate civil society and, as a result, strengthen the regime of Soviet power. And some are sure that repression was a way to raise the level of industrial development of the country with the help of free labor in the form of convicts.

Initiators of Stalin's repressions.

According to some evidence from those times, it can be concluded that the culprits of the mass imprisonments were Stalin’s closest associates, such as N. Yezhov and L. Beria, who had unlimited powers of state security and internal affairs structures under their command. They deliberately conveyed biased information to the leader about the state of affairs in the state, for the unhindered implementation of repression. However, some historians are of the opinion that Stalin took the personal initiative in carrying out large-scale purges and his possession of complete data on the scale of the arrests.

In the thirties, a huge number of prisons and camps located in the north of the country were combined into one structure - the Gulag - for better management. They are engaged in a wide range of construction work, and also work in the extraction of minerals and precious metals.

More recently, thanks to the partially declassified archives of the NKVD of the USSR, the true numbers of repressed citizens became known to a wide circle. They amounted to almost 4 million people, of whom approximately 700 thousand were sentenced to capital punishment. Only a small proportion of those innocently convicted were subsequently cleared of their charges. Only after the death of Joseph Vissarionovich did rehabilitation gain noticeable proportions. The activities of comrades Beria, Yezhov, Yagoda and many others were also reviewed. Convictions were made against them.

Estimates of the number of victims of Stalin's repressions vary dramatically. Some cite numbers in the tens of millions of people, others limit themselves to hundreds of thousands. Which of them is closer to the truth?

Who is to blame?

Today our society is almost equally divided into Stalinists and anti-Stalinists. The former draw attention to the positive transformations that took place in the country during the Stalin era, the latter call not to forget about the huge number of victims of the repressions of the Stalinist regime.
However, almost all Stalinists recognize the fact of repression, but note its limited nature and even justify it as political necessity. Moreover, they often do not associate repressions with the name of Stalin.
Historian Nikolai Kopesov writes that in most investigative cases against those repressed in 1937-1938 there were no resolutions of Stalin - everywhere there were verdicts of Yagoda, Yezhov and Beria. According to the Stalinists, this is proof that the heads of the punitive bodies were engaged in arbitrariness and in support of this they cite Yezhov’s quote: “Whoever we want, we execute, whoever we want, we have mercy.”
For that part of the Russian public that sees Stalin as the ideologist of repression, these are just details that confirm the rule. Yagoda, Yezhov and many other arbiters of human destinies themselves turned out to be victims of terror. Who else but Stalin was behind all this? - they ask a rhetorical question.
Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief specialist of the State Archives of the Russian Federation Oleg Khlevnyuk notes that despite the fact that Stalin’s signature was not on many execution lists, it was he who sanctioned almost all mass political repressions.

Who was hurt?

The issue of victims acquired even greater significance in the debate surrounding Stalin's repressions. Who suffered and in what capacity during the period of Stalinism? Many researchers note that the very concept of “victims of repression” is quite vague. Historiography has not yet developed clear definitions on this matter.
Of course, those convicted, imprisoned in prisons and camps, shot, deported, deprived of property should be counted among those affected by the actions of the authorities. But what about, for example, those who were subjected to “biased interrogation” and then released? Should criminal and political prisoners be separated? In what category should we classify the “nonsense”, convicted of minor isolated thefts and equated to state criminals?
Deportees deserve special attention. What category should they be classified into – repressed or administratively expelled? It is even more difficult to determine those who fled without waiting for dispossession or deportation. They were sometimes caught, but some were lucky enough to start a new life.

Such different numbers

Uncertainties in the issue of who is responsible for the repression, in identifying the categories of victims and the period for which the victims of repression should be counted lead to completely different figures. The most impressive figures were given by the economist Ivan Kurganov (Solzhenitsyn referred to these data in his novel The Gulag Archipelago), who calculated that from 1917 to 1959, 110 million people became victims of the internal war of the Soviet regime against its people.
In this number, Kurganov includes victims of famine, collectivization, peasant exile, camps, executions, civil war, as well as “the neglectful and sloppy conduct of the Second World War.”
Even if such calculations are correct, can these figures be considered a reflection of Stalin's repressions? The economist, in fact, answers this question himself, using the expression “victims of the internal war of the Soviet regime.” It is worth noting that Kurganov counted only the dead. It is difficult to imagine what figure could have appeared if the economist had taken into account all those affected by the Soviet regime during the specified period.
The figures given by the head of the human rights society “Memorial” Arseny Roginsky are more realistic. He writes: “Across the entire Soviet Union, 12.5 million people are considered victims of political repression,” but adds that in a broad sense, up to 30 million people can be considered repressed.
Leaders of the Yabloko movement Elena Kriven and Oleg Naumov counted all categories of victims of the Stalinist regime, including those who died in the camps from disease and harsh working conditions, those dispossessed, victims of hunger, victims of unjustifiably cruel decrees and those who received excessively harsh punishment for minor offenses in the force of the repressive nature of legislation. The final figure is 39 million.
Researcher Ivan Gladilin notes in this regard that if the count of victims of repression has been carried out since 1921, this means that it is not Stalin who is responsible for a significant part of the crimes, but the “Leninist Guard,” which immediately after the October Revolution launched terror against the White Guards , clergy and kulaks.

How to count?

Estimates of the number of victims of repression vary greatly depending on the method of counting. If we take into account those convicted only on political charges, then according to the data of the regional departments of the KGB of the USSR, given in 1988, the Soviet bodies (VChK, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB) arrested 4,308,487 people, of which 835,194 were shot.
Employees of the Memorial Society, when counting the victims of political trials, are close to these figures, although their data is still noticeably higher - 4.5-4.8 million were convicted, of which 1.1 million were executed. If we consider everyone who went through the Gulag system as victims of the Stalinist regime, then this figure, according to various estimates, will range from 15 to 18 million people.
Very often, Stalin’s repressions are associated exclusively with the concept of the “Great Terror,” which peaked in 1937-1938. According to the commission led by academician Pyotr Pospelov to establish the causes of mass repressions, the following figures were announced: 1,548,366 people were arrested on charges of anti-Soviet activity, of which 681,692 thousand were sentenced to capital punishment.
One of the most authoritative experts on the demographic aspects of political repression in the USSR, historian Viktor Zemskov, names a smaller number of those convicted during the years of the “Great Terror” - 1,344,923 people, although his data coincides with the number of those executed.
If dispossessed people are included in the number of those subjected to repression during Stalin’s time, the figure will increase by at least 4 million people. The same Zemskov cites this number of dispossessed people. The Yabloko party agrees with this, noting that about 600 thousand of them died in exile.
Representatives of some peoples who were subjected to forced deportation also became victims of Stalin's repressions - Germans, Poles, Finns, Karachais, Kalmyks, Armenians, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Crimean Tatars. Many historians agree that the total number of deportees is about 6 million people, while about 1.2 million people did not live to see the end of the journey.

To trust or not?

The above figures are mostly based on reports from the OGPU, NKVD, and MGB. However, not all documents of the punitive departments have been preserved; many of them were purposefully destroyed, and many are still in restricted access.
It should be recognized that historians are very dependent on statistics collected by various special agencies. But the difficulty is that even the available information reflects only those officially repressed, and therefore, by definition, cannot be complete. Moreover, it is possible to verify it from primary sources only in the rarest cases.
An acute shortage of reliable and complete information often provoked both the Stalinists and their opponents to name radically different figures in favor of their position. “If the “right” exaggerated the scale of the repressions, then the “left”, partly out of dubious youth, having found much more modest figures in the archives, hastened to make them public and did not always ask themselves the question of whether everything was reflected - and could be reflected - in the archives, – notes historian Nikolai Koposov.
It can be stated that estimates of the scale of Stalin’s repressions based on the sources available to us can be very approximate. Documents stored in federal archives would be a good help for modern researchers, but many of them were re-classified. A country with such a history will jealously guard the secrets of its past.

Every Russian should know this!

Discussion of the topic of Stalin's repressions, in addition to many ideological factors that lead to the problem "beyond good and evil", is also complicated by the diversity of the myth about the “cult of personality,” formed for different purposes and in different periods of time.

Here, for example, is the assessment of Stalin’s personality given by the current Prime Minister of Russia D.A. Medvedev:

Nikita Khrushchev in the 50s of the twentieth century used the exposure of the cult of personality as a kind of “shock therapy” to maintain and legitimize his own power and avoid responsibility for his own contribution to repression.

In the 60s and 70s, this topic was used against him, and in the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, the topic of Stalinist repressions was inflated to overthrow the CPSU and the complete destruction of the USSR.

Let's try to understand the numbers a little

In February 1954, a certificate was prepared in the name of N. S. Khrushchev, signed by the Prosecutor General of the USSR R. Rudenko, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR S. Kruglov and the Minister of Justice of the USSR K. Gorshenin, which indicated the number of people convicted of counter-revolutionary crimes during the period from 1921 to February 1, 1954. According to this certificate, during this period, in total, 3,777,380 people were convicted by the OGPU Collegium, the NKVD “troikas”, the Special Conference, the Military Collegium, courts and military tribunals, including, of them, 642,980 people were sentenced to death, and to detention in camps and prisons for a term of 25 years and below - 2,369,220 people, to exile and deportation - 765,180 people.

Please note that these statistics are for 32 years. And this is the Civil War, this is a very difficult era after it. This is four years of a terrible war with the Nazis. This is the most difficult period after the Great Patriotic War. This is a fight against numerous gangs of Banderaites and the so-called “forest brothers”. Among these repressions were Yagoda and Yezhov, and other bloody executioners. This includes the Vlasov traitors. There are also deserters and looters, self-shooters, alarmists. Members of the gangster underground. Nazi collaborators who shed blood. Here is the “Leninist guard”, which destroyed a great country to the delight of Russia’s enemies. Zinoviev and Kamenev are here. The rest of the Trotskyists are also in this number. Figures of the Comintern. The executioner Bela Kun, who drowned thousands of officers in Crimea with stones on their necks. That is, the total number of those repressed over these 32 years is very multifaceted, complex.

If you divide the total number of people executed in the USSR by the number of years, you get less than 22,000 people per year. Is this too much?

Of course a lot. But let's not forget what difficult years these were. And there were no 10 million executed!

This is certainly a deliberate lie!

Remember this number: for the period from 1921 to February 1, 1954, 642,980 people were sentenced to death, and this was over 32 years.

This is what really happened. You definitely need to know and remember this!

About the allegedly repressed command staff of the Red Army from May 1937 to September 1939 in number 40 thousand Human. It was precisely this round number that was first named by the magazine Ogonyok (No. 26, 1986), followed by Moscow News and then by other publications.

Where did it come from? such a figure?

And here's where it comes from. The fact is that on May 5, 1940, the head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Lieutenant General E. Shchadenko presented to I.V. Stalin a “Report on the work of the department” for 1939. It said that in the years 1937-1939, from the ranks of the Red Army there were fired 36898 commanders I emphasize - FIRED!!!

Of these, in 1937, 18,658 people were fired. (13.1% of the payroll of command and control and political personnel), in 1938, 16,362 people were fired, (9.2% of the command staff), in 1939, 1,878 people were fired (0.7% of the command staff).

The motives were the following: 1) by age; 2) for health reasons; 3) for disciplinary offenses; 4) for moral instability; 5) 19,106 were dismissed for political reasons (of which, after complaints were filed and inspections were carried out, 9,247 were reinstated in 1938-1939); 6) 9,579 command personnel were arrested, that is, repressed (of which 1,457 were reinstated in 1938-1939).

Thus, it can be stated that the number of officers arrested in 1937-1939 (excluding the Air Force and Navy) is 8,122 people (3% of the total number of command personnel in 1939).

Of these, about 70 were sentenced to death, 17 were shot - mostly the highest ones, for example, two of the five marshals (Tukhachevsky for organizing a Trotskyist military conspiracy, Egorov for participating in espionage, preparing terrorist attacks and participating in the revolutionary organization), more One Marshal Blucher was arrested for participation in a fascist military conspiracy, which led to unjustified losses and the deliberate failure of the operation on Lake Khasan, but he died in prison. Also, 5 out of 9 1st rank army commanders (Belov, Yakir, Uborevich, Fedko, Frinovsky) and other representatives of the “fifth column” were shot for similar especially dangerous crimes.

And finally, the most striking evidence, from the lips of the enemy:

"... The Wehrmacht simply betrayed me, I am dying at the hands of my own generals. Stalin committed a brilliant act by organizing a purge in the Red Army and getting rid of the rotten aristocracy"(from an interview given by A. Hitler to journalist K. Speidel at the end of April 1945)

Used as a source:

Certificate of the 1st special department of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs on the number of arrested and convicted in the period 1921-1953.” dated December 11, 1953, signed by the head of the archive department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Pavlov, on the basis of which, apparently, a certificate was drawn up sent to Khrushchev for the period from 1921 to 1938 on the affairs of the Cheka-GPU-OGPU-NKVD and from 1939 to mid-1953

Report by E. Shchadenko presented to I.V. Stalin “Report on the work of management” for 1939. Interview of A. Hitler given by him to journalist K. Speidel at the end of April 1945.

Notes:

1. 642,980 people were put on death row over 32 years.

This number includes executed civil war gangs, murderers, robbers, WWII policemen, Vlasovites, deserters, forest brothers and criminals, such as those we saw in the film “The meeting place cannot be changed.”

2. During 1937-1939, 36,898 commanders were dismissed from the ranks of the Red Army

During the same period, about 250,000 officers were trained at military departments.

3. Hitler: I am dying at the hands of my own generals:

During the Second World War, there was not a single coup attempt in the USSR.

In Germany there were several assassination attempts on Hitler, and several attempts to enter into a separate world without Hitler.

The given figures are confirmed by historian Igor Pykhalov, who studied a lot of documents stored in state archives. Its identical results can be found.

NOW WHEN STATISTICS NUMBERS have given us a real idea of ​​STALIN'S REPRESSIONS, a logical question arises:

AND WHO IS STILL SPEAKING RUMORS THAT “STALIN WAS A TYRANT WHO WAS AT WAR WITH HIS OWN PEOPLE”??? After all, the numbers show that STALIN DID NOT COMPLETE ANY GENOCIDE IN THE USSR! On his part there was a struggle with an internal enemy, which was by no means numerous!

I found the answer to this question as a result of a long study of various aspects of our life: this BY FALSE WITNESS regarding STALIN I was and still am doing THAT PART JEWS, and mostly only she, which is usually called LIFE(or YIDS) - that is, this is what the demonic part of the Jewish people, which in all its “glory” had already manifested itself during the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and also during the Civil War of 1918-1922 in Russia.

However, I propose now to return mentally to the times post-revolutionary, to the first decades of the twentieth century.

Imagine, a terrible bloody Civil War has been going on in Russia for two years now, and in England the future Prime Minister Winston Churchill is writing a note "Bolshevism and Zionism", which contains the following words and thoughts:

"The conflict between good and evil, constantly going on in the human heart, has nowhere reached such intensity as in the Jewish race. It is the most striking and powerful example of the dual nature of humanity. The Jews have given us in the Christian revelation an ethical system which, even if completely separated from supernatural, is the most precious of all that humanity possesses, surpassing all other fruits of wisdom and knowledge taken together. On this system, and this faith, since the fall of the Roman Empire, our entire civilization has been built.

It is quite possible that this wonderful race is now in the process of creating a new system of morality and philosophy, as evil as Christianity was pious, which, if not checked, will irrevocably undermine everything that Christianity has made possible. It appears that both the gospel of Christ and the gospel of Antichrist must have been generated by the same people, and that this mystical and mysterious race was chosen for the highest manifestation of both the divine and the diabolical...

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Russian Jews played an honorable and successful role in the national life of Russia. As bankers and industrialists, they greatly advanced Russia's economic development, and they were among the early founders of such remarkable organizations as the Russian Cooperative Societies. In politics they supported mostly liberal and progressive movements. They were among the most determined supporters of friendship with France and Great Britain.

The strongest opposition to all these areas of Jewish activity was provided by Jewish internationalists. The adherents of their terrible confederation are the dregs of society in those countries where Jews are persecuted as a race. Most of them, if not all, abandoned the faith of their ancestors and abandoned all hopes of life in the other world. This movement is not new among Jews. From the days of Spartacus (Weishaupt) to Karl Marx, and on to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxemburg (Germany) and Emma Goldman (United States), this global conspiracy to overthrow civilization and establish a society... .which is based on envy and impossible equality, gradually expanded. He played his prominent part in the tragedy of the French Revolution, as the modern writer Mrs. Webster has ably shown. He was the main source of every subversive movement in the 19th century. Now, this group of exceptional individuals from the scum of the big cities of Europe and America grabbed the Russian people by the hair and established their dominance over a huge empire.

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There is no need to exaggerate the role played by these largely irreligious internationalist Jews in the creation of Bolshevism and the accomplishment of the Russian Revolution. Of course, this role is very large, probably outweighing all others. With the exception of Lenin, most of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, Jewish leaders inspire and are a driving force. Thus, the influence of Chicherin, a Russian by nationality, is inferior to the power of Litvinov, who is formally subordinate to him, and the influence of such Russians as Bukharin or Lunacharsky cannot be compared with the power of the Jews, Trotsky or Zinoviev (dictator of Petrograd), or Krasin, or Radek. The dominance of Jews in Soviet institutions is even more surprising. Jews, and in some cases Jewish women, play a prominent, if not the main, role in the Cheka’s terror.

The Jews played a similarly prominent role during the period when Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. We see the same crazy phenomenon in Germany (especially in Bavaria), where it was facilitated by the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews who are as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the role of these latter, considering the small percentage of Jews among the population of these countries, is surprisingly great ... "

Here in relation to these DEMONIC JEWS(Jews), who committed numerous crimes in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century BLOODY CRIMES, and were produced in the mid-30s STALIN'S REPRESSIONS!

Here is a document, the so-called historical source of these thoughts and these words of W. Churchill - a newspaper publication for February 8, 1920:


For those readers who only learns to think and reason logically, I explain: Winston Churchill described ROOT CAUSE, which subsequently caused STALIN'S REPRESSIONS.

At first Jews-Jews committed their own in Russia Jew's Sabbath, being under the leadership of Trotsky and Lenin, and Then Stalin, when he came to power, arranged for them PURGATORY.

I hope there is no need to explain to anyone what it is causation?

If anyone still doesn’t know, let me explain: causation in criminal law - this is an objectively existing connection between a criminal act and the socially dangerous consequences that have occurred, the presence of which is a prerequisite for bringing a person to criminal responsibility...

Additional material explaining WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE STALIN, what PRECEDED the so-called STALIN REPRESSIONS, can be read in a separate article:

Comment Alexandra Fomina:

They themselves explain the hatred of the Jews for Stalin in their Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia in the article "Stalin Joseph". I will give only a fragment of this article:

“During the years of the “Great Terror” (1936–38), the majority of Jews who held prominent party and government positions became victims of repression. The party apparatus, which actually ran the country, was almost completely “cleared” of Jews. Among the apparatchiks of the “conscription of 1937” “There were almost no Jews. Only two Jews remained in Stalin’s inner circle - L. Kaganovich and L. Mehlis, although Jews were among those who directly carried out the terror of the late 1930s, especially in its first stages (G. Yagoda. , Y. Agranov, etc.), N. Yezhov, who took the post of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs in 1937, consistently carried out the purge of Jews from the NKVD organs. Judicial re-enactments of 1936–38, the so-called trials of the “Trotskyist-Zinoviev center” and “. parallel Trotskyist center,” contributed to the spread of anti-Semitic sentiment: in one of them, about half, in the other, two-thirds of the defendants were Jews, among them Jewish German emigrants, accused not only of Trotskyism, but also of connections with the Gestapo. "

Stalin's policy of purges of Jews from the State Apparatus led to the fact that by 1939 only about 4% of Jews remained in the leadership of the NKVD and, lo and behold, for some reason the repressions practically stopped.

I would like to explain one more dark nuance in our amazing and full of tragic pages of history.

As I already indicated above, the demonic part of Jewry, which really exists and which is not at all difficult to calculate using "to its fruits", inherent PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, and with it this zhidve inherent: sexual perversions, sadism, shamelessness, impudence, delusions of grandeur...and this characteristic series is crowned by the TENDENCY OF THE YIDS TO FALSE WITNESS, to MIMICRY and to invent FALSE (DISINFORMATIONAL) MYTHS.

Genital perversion and sadism- these are two faithful companions. It's not for nothing that Nazi Adolf Hitler was sexually active pervert, although he lived with a woman, Eva Braun, he came to power in Germany, as is known, with the active support homosexual Ernst Röhm, one of the leaders of the German National Socialists and the leader of the "assault troops" ("SA").

Reference: National Socialism(German: Nationalsozialismus, abbreviated as Nazism) is a form of social order that combines socialism with extreme nationalism and racism, as well as the name of the ideology that justifies this kind of social order. National Socialism in the head of the homosexual Ernst Röhm was a very paradoxical ideology that combined various elements of socialism, nationalism, racism, fascism and anti-Semitism, and selective anti-Semitism, which allowed the German National Socialists to hate not all Jews in a row, but only a certain part of them .

Reference: in 1920, replacing Karl Mayr as head of the propaganda department of the IV Military District, Ernst Röhm met Hitler and became one of the first members of the NSDAP. At that time, Röhm, together with a member of the Land Hunting Council, Georg Escherich, created the Bavarian people's militia (German: Einwohnerwehren), designed to circumvent the restrictions on the size of the armed forces imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. To provide it with weapons and ammunition, Röhm created huge caches, which were later enough to arm a third of the Wehrmacht created in 1935. However, in 1921 the organization was banned. After this failure, Röhm came to the conclusion that to seize power, the support of broad sections of the population was necessary. Hitler turned out to be the most suitable candidate for solving this problem. To ensure Hitler's safety, Röhm organized a mobile group from the soldiers of the 19th mortar company. On its basis, the party order service was created, subsequently renamed the physical education and sports department, and then the assault detachment (German: Sturmabteilung, abbreviated as SA). Röhm also sought officers for command positions. The basis of the SA leadership was made up of people from the headquarters of the 2nd Naval Brigade, disbanded for participation in the Kapp Putsch, led by its commander, Captain 3rd Rank Hermann Erhardt. Almost immediately, disagreements began to arise between Röhm and Hitler regarding the goals and objectives of the SA. Hitler saw the assault troops as a group of fighters ready to carry out any task of the party leadership. Rohm perceived the SA as the core of the future revolutionary army. In this he was supported by the military authorities of Bavaria, who considered the attack aircraft as reserve units. Moreover, for the latter, the only authorities were Röhm and Erhardt, and they ignored the NSDAP. In order to strengthen his influence in the SA, Hitler appointed Hermann Goering as commander of the detachments, and then, as a counterbalance, created his own personal guard, which later turned into the SS..." .

1933 Adolf Hitler and the famous homosexual stormtrooper Ernst Röhm.

Homosexual scandals in Germany in the 1930s

Reference: in 1931 Erns Röhm found himself at the center of a scandal. Supporters of Walter Stennes, the deposed commander of the Berlin stormtroopers, expressed clear dissatisfaction with the appointment to a leadership post of a homosexual who, in their opinion, was a disgrace to the Sturmabteilung ("storm troopers", abbreviated as SA). Röhm was also caught using his official position for personal gain. Trusted stormtroopers found sexual partners for him, whom Röhm later appointed to positions in the SA. If the chosen one showed infidelity or dissatisfaction, he was severely beaten. The meetings took place in the Bratwurstglöckl beer hall. Röhm openly visited the favorite establishments of homosexuals, the Kleist Casino and the Silhouette, together with the new leadership of the Berlin assault troops. Hitler, in response to the information that came to him that compromised Röhm, said that he would make a decision when he was provided with evidence. And the evidence soon appeared. The Social Democratic newspaper Münchner Post began to publish stories about Röhm's adventures and publish his letters. Trying to find the source of the information leak, Roehm instructed journalist Georg Bell to meet with Karl Mayr, who by that time had become a democrat. Mayr reported that some of the NSDAP leaders were planning the physical elimination of Röhm. And, indeed, the supreme judge of the party, Buch, after Hitler’s next refusal to remove Röhm from his post, conceived the murder of some of the senior leaders of the SA, but due to the indecisiveness of the performers, the plan failed. However, after it became known about Ryom’s contacts with Mayr, a new scandal erupted..." .

I described in a separate article what parallels there are with this topic in our recent history:

It would be appropriate to say that Stalin and all his inner circle knew very well about the close connection between homosexuality and fascism. In particular, Stalin spoke on this topic more than once with the writer Maxim Gorky. And after Hitler suspected Erst Röhm and his “assault brigades” of preparing a putsch and countered them "Night of the Long Knives", as a result of which Röhm was killed along with thousands of his comrades on July 1, 1934, Gorky formulated a kind of RECIPE, "how can you defeat fascism"! He published it in May of the same year in the Izvestia newspaper:


Look through this now "prism" to the events that are happening today in Ukraine!

Over the past years, there have been one after another homosexual scandals!

Moreover pederasts who found themselves in the Kiev leadership are now giving their "colleagues from the people" arrange in Kyiv gay pride parades, and their opponents are openly beaten by the Ukrainian police so that they do not interfere with the gay pride parades!

The cry of people being beaten by Ukrainian riot police is noteworthy: "Fagots defend homosexuals!!!" This happened on May 25, 2013.

Draw a conclusion: if we are talking today about revival of FASCISM in Ukraine, then it is reborn at the post office homosexuality, and a leading role in the revival FASCISM playing again DEMONIC PART of world Jewry, the so-called KIKES with very characteristic, recognizable faces.


The President of Ukraine is Petro Poroshenko (Waltzman on his father’s side), Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is the “famous Jew of Ukraine”, the head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman.

To conclude this topic - news from Russia: THE KIDS ARE BOILING: IF THE PEOPLE REVOLT, THE SUPPORT OF POWERS WILL BE ON THE SIDE OF THE STALINISTS!



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