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Matvei Bronstein: Theorical physicist. Pioneer of quantum gravity. Arrested, accused of fictional “terroristic” activity and shot in 1938

Lev Shubnikov: Experimental physicist. Accused on false charges. Executed

Adrian Piotrovsky: Russian dramaturge. Accused on false charges of treason. Executed.

Nikolai Bukharin: Leader of the Communist revolution. Member of the Politburo. Falsely accused of treason. Executed.

General Alexander Egorov: Marshal of the Soviet Union. Commander of the Red Army Southern Front. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Arrested, accused on false charges, executed.

General Mikhail Tukhachevsky Supreme Marshal of the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the Red Napoleon. Arrested, accused on fake charges. Executed.

Grigory Zinoviev: Chairman of the Communist International Movement. Member of the Soviet Politburo. Accused of treason and executed.

Even the secret police themselves were not safe:

Genrikh Yagoda : Right-hand of Joseph Stalin. Head of the NKD Secret Police. He spied on everyone in Russia and jailed thousands of innocents. Yagoda was arrested and executed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda

Nikolai Yezhov : Appointed head of the NKD Secret Police after the death of Yagoda. Arrested on fake charges, executed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov

Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 600 000 people were killed and over 100 000 people were deported to Gulags in Siberia.

Today, Russian schools no longer teach what Joseph Stalin did. Many young russians actually believe that Stalin was a great patriot.

This is part of an effort by Vladimir Putin to rehabilitate him:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/10/vladimir-putin-russia-rehabilitating-stalin-soviet-past

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/21/stalin-is-making-a-comeback-in-russia-heres-why-a89155

  • Sunforged@lemmy.ml
    1313·
    1 day ago

    You sure?

    Really?

    How sure?

    Like, I could look at ICE raids and their obvious purpose of terrorizing the immigrant community, but I have a feeling you’re the type of bootlicker that thinks those actions are justified.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      1015·
      1 day ago

      Compared to genocide by Stalin, ICE is peanuts.
      But no it’s not justified, that still doesn’t make it an equal atrocity to what Stalin did.
      Also USA is not a democracy, it is a deeply dysfunctional democracy. And In USA it can go 2 ways now, they either go full dictator, or if they go the other, these things will be softened.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

      official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953),[8][9][10][11][12] around 1.5 to 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag,[13][14][15] some 390,000[16] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s,[17] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.

      So kindly piss off with your false equivalences.

      • Sunforged@lemmy.ml
        156·
        1 day ago

        Dude the US is fully funding a genocide right now. Since October 7, 2023, the U.S. has provided Israel with billions in military aid, including at least $21.7 billion in approved funding, along with tens of billions more in future arms sale commitments.

        Your entire premise is so inherently flawed.

        Also rofl at you sounding like a tankie:

        Also USA is not a democracy, it is a deeply dysfunctional democracy.

        “It wasn’t real communism bro.”

        • Buffalox@lemmy.world
          56·
          1 day ago

          Please read my edited post.
          And no I’m not anything remotely like a tankie, I am one who favor ACTAUL democracy, where among the best models we have running currently is the Scandinavian model.
          A 2 party system can never be accepted as a functional democracy, also the level of corruption in elections is undemocratic. preventing people from voting and gerrymandering.
          All those things detract from USA as a democracy.

          You are delusional and create strawmen and then you think you have a superior view based on your delusions and false equivalences that have no basis in reality.

      • flandish@lemmy.world
        82·
        1 day ago

        fine. compare stalin to something else that was closer to his time than he is to us:

        American slave trade. do it. tell me stalin was worse than slavery?

        the gfy.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.world
          110·
          1 day ago

          Again with USA as the example, no other democracy had slaves like USA did.
          On the other hand comparable stories to Stalin can be found in multiple autocratic systems.
          Where USA is the exception as in exceptionally bad among democracies, what Stain did is commonplace among autocracies.

            • Buffalox@lemmy.world
              14·
              1 day ago

              If you are referring to South Africa you are a moron.
              Because South Africa was very much an authoritarian leadership, and ruled by a white minority by force.
              WTF is that reference supposed to show that does anything but support democracy?

            • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
              12·
              1 day ago

              Yeah. The US definitely was horrifically evil long after other Global North countries had decided to chill but we were far from the only people running on the genocide and enslavement of the Global South.

              In a lot of ways, the US was late to colonialism and took it WAY too far and commit atrocities for it. The USSR/Stalin was late to (there is probably a better term for it but I can’t remember it) peasant revolutions and took it WAY too far and commit atrocities for it… and then ended up being a global power that extended said reign of terror to anyone sharing a border with them.