I have to be skeptical of this charge. Is there some reference to this event somewhere? I just googled it and couldn't find anything except references to it in the rodeo clown story.
Does anyone have a link where it is documented that Stalin executed a bunch of clowns at a circus? Or is this just a rumor?
Check Alexsander Solzenitzen, if you have a spare eight years to read The Archepelagio. Pardon my spelling of words and names I almost never aloud speak these days.
Does anyone have a link where it is documented that Stalin executed a bunch of clowns at a circus? Or is this just a rumor?
LOL, yer a bit slow today. Choose one answer from Column A, and one from Column B.
A. It's a story meant to illustrate Stalinism, and the Stalinist way of ruling.
B. Stalin butchered over 50 million people. He had villagers beaten to death with iron rods. He starved families and shot them in their own fields if they ate even one potato. Every inch of Russian soil is drenched in the blood of absolutely insane levels of murder, and you want to know if this story is true? Yes, it's true - it represents the literal truth of the madness with which Stalin killed people. Whether clowns were ever shot in a circus is utterly irrelevent.
Having spent ~40 years of my life in the Soviet paradise, I have never heard of such a story. Totally out of character for Stalin to publicly display such brutality, he would arrange for killing thousands by his henchmen, stayed in the shadows himself and organized the execution of executioners later on.