Posted on 12/27/2017 7:50:51 AM PST by x1stcav
Trudging through mud in sub-zero temperatures, digging the earth with their bare hands and heaving huge rocks with the most primitive of tools, these horrifying photos have revealed life inside Joseph Stalin's gulag prisons, where people were worked to death in Soviet labour camps through the mid-1900s.
This year marks 100 years since the 1917 Russian Revolution, which led to Vladimir Lenin taking control of the Soviet Union. When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin rose to power and became the state's authoritarian leader.
Between 1929 and the year of Stalin's death in 1953, 18million men and women were transported to Soviet slave labour camps in Siberia and other outposts of the Red empire - many of them never to return.
Prisoners worked in the most extreme climates, facing temperatures of -20C (-4F), as they cut down trees with handsaws and dug at frozen ground with primitive pickaxes.
Others mined coal or copper by hand, often suffering painful or fatal lung diseases from inhaling ore dust while on the job.
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We have statues honoring these mass murdering ilk here.
This could not have happened. After all, the New York Times did not report on it at the time...
/s (of course)
This can’t possibly be true - the New York Times said Stalin was a great leader, just misunderstood.
Where? There aren’t any statues of Stalin near where I live.
Let’s have Bernard Sanders dig coal in freezing weather with his bare hands for a couple of months or fight others to eat out of garbage cans in Venezuela for a couple of months. Then he can regale us with another one of his lectures on the wonders of socialism.
Stalin, Hitler, etc. could not have done this all by themselves. It took legions who believed in an idea.
“Harvest of Despair Soviet Communism engineered Ukraine Famine Genocide 1933)”
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harvest+of+despair
For later.
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>>It took legions who believed in an idea.
And funding.
Who did that?
And there was a few who were American boys who’s POW camp they over ran during WW2.
Took em all back to the gulags and that was the last anyone heard of them.
To this day, NOT ONE shyster politician will admit that happened...and that included Ike and his ilk.
Should have dropped the A bomb on them commie bastards before they got it.
Patton had the right idea regarding the commies.
College kids need to be taught history. They think communism is great? Let them look at reality
There’s one of Lenin in Washington State I believe. I also think there are a few Che ones too.
A saying I read years ago: After Lenin comes Stalin.
In other words, it really doesn’t matter who the first leader in a communist revolution is. After that first leader is gone, the second leader will be a Stalin.
This is something that today’s starry-eyed communists refuse to admit.
(Potemkin village)
Ummmmmmmm. What?
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