And we are going to get at least eight yers of that shit.
An obama picture will be required for each house, every state will be obama state, every city and town will be obama city or town. Every county will be obama county. There will be a period of at least four hours set aside each day for the worship of obama.
But the fact of the matter is that the American pepole, in their infinite wisdom elected their messiah to rule over them.
“An obama picture will be required for each house, every state will be obama state, every city and town will be obama city or town. Every county will be obama county. There will be a period of at least four hours set aside each day for the worship of obama.”
“Stalin’s Terror
Summary
The most famous aspect of Stalin’s Russia was the Terror. This grew from his paranoia and his desire to be absolute autocrat, and was enforced via the NKVD and public ‘show trials’. It developed into a centrally-enforced ‘cult of Stalin-worship’, and a terrifying system of labour camps - ‘the gulag’.
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Reasons for the Terror
(Why Unnecessary Purges?)
1. Whole Country
Stalin believed that Russia had to be united – with him as leader – if it was to be strong.
2. Urgency
Stalin believed Russia had 10 years to catch up with the western world before Germany invaded.
3. Paranoia
Stalin became increasingly paranoid (seeing plots everywhere) and power-mad (he demanded continuous praise and applause). In 1935, his wife killed herself.
The Apparatus of Terror
(Stalin Takes Total Control)
1. Secret Police
The CHEKA became the OGPU (1922), then the NKVD (1934).
2. The First Purges, 1930–33
Including anybody who opposed industrialisation, and the kulaks who opposed collectivisation.
3. The Great Purges, 1934–39
Political Opponents
1934: Kirov, a rival to Stalin, was murdered. Although he probably ordered the assassination, Stalin used it as a chance to arrest thousands of his opponents.
1934–1939, Stalin’s political opponents were put on ‘Show trials’, where they pleaded guilty to impossible charges of treason (e.g. Zinoviev and Kamenev 1936/ Bukharin, Tomsky & Rykov 1938).
The Army
In 1937, the Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army and 7 leading generals were shot. In 1938–39, all the admirals and half the Army’s officers were executed or imprisoned.
The Church
Religious leaders imprisoned; churches closed down.
Ethnic groups
Stalin enforced ‘Russification’ of all the Soviet Union.
Ordinary people
Were denounced/ arrested/ sent to the Gulag (the system of labour camps). 20 million Russians were sent to the camps, where perhaps half of them died. People lived in fear. ‘Apparatchiks’ (party members loyal to Stalin) got all the new flats, jobs, holidays etc.
4. Cult of Stalin
Censorship of anything that might reflect badly on Stalin
Propaganda everywhere - pictures, statues, continuous praise and applause
Places named after him
Mothers taught their children that Stalin was ‘the wisest man of the age’
History books and photographs were changed to make him the hero of the Revolution, and obliterate the names of purged people (e.g. Trotsky).”
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http://www.johndclare.net/Russ12.htm
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OOPS! Posted to the wrong thread. Sorry. (/sarc)
Lefties like this Soledad nitwit are probably setting up their 0bama shrines even as I type.