Stalin's Great Terror
“It has been estimated between 600,000 and 3 million people died at the hands of the Soviet government during the Purge.” This is the estimated number of people that died during Stalin’s Great Terror
The “Great Terror” or “Great Purge as it was called was a time of as the name states terror. Stalin’s secret police the NKVD and the Soviet government killed hundreds of thousands to millions of Russian peasants. Those who weren’t killed were detained in Gulags. How the Cold War could’ve escalated into something akin to WW3. How if it did turn into a live conflict what it would do to the world. Or how leaders of Russia from the USSR really shaped Russia today. But how the Great Terror really affected Russia, and how many people died
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His followers loved him so much and were so loyal they would do anything for him, like “If it was necessary to cut you to pieces, [stalin's people] cut you to pieces.” He was very involved with the killing, and if he wasn’t involved he planned it, and watched. If Stalin didn’t kill you he would send you to a gulag. A gulag was labour camp where Stalin would send his enemies. Was it better to live and be sent to a gulag? Or be tortured and die? He would do anything to make sure anyone unloyal to him, a person able to lead, or anyone he disliked would disappear. If he didn’t kill them he might have left them to physically and mentally scarred they couldn’t even imagine disliking Stalin. This was one of the worst events in history, and it went unnoticed by Russia’s own people as it went down. No one really knows how many people were affected by this terrible event. In all Stalin detained 1,548,366 people. That is 1/162 the population of the Soviet Union at the time. Of those over 1,500,000 people, 1,000 victims were killed every day, and over 681,000 people were shot and wounded. This is awful because for this amount of death, harmfulness, and disappearance of people to go unnoticed is awful. It’s one of the many reasons why communism was such a terrible
The “Great Terror” or “Great Purge as it was called was a time of as the name states terror. Stalin’s secret police the NKVD and the Soviet government killed hundreds of thousands to millions of Russian peasants. Those who weren’t killed were detained in Gulags. How the Cold War could’ve escalated into something akin to WW3. How if it did turn into a live conflict what it would do to the world. Or how leaders of Russia from the USSR really shaped Russia today. But how the Great Terror really affected Russia, and how many people died
I think Russian …show more content…
His followers loved him so much and were so loyal they would do anything for him, like “If it was necessary to cut you to pieces, [stalin's people] cut you to pieces.” He was very involved with the killing, and if he wasn’t involved he planned it, and watched. If Stalin didn’t kill you he would send you to a gulag. A gulag was labour camp where Stalin would send his enemies. Was it better to live and be sent to a gulag? Or be tortured and die? He would do anything to make sure anyone unloyal to him, a person able to lead, or anyone he disliked would disappear. If he didn’t kill them he might have left them to physically and mentally scarred they couldn’t even imagine disliking Stalin. This was one of the worst events in history, and it went unnoticed by Russia’s own people as it went down. No one really knows how many people were affected by this terrible event. In all Stalin detained 1,548,366 people. That is 1/162 the population of the Soviet Union at the time. Of those over 1,500,000 people, 1,000 victims were killed every day, and over 681,000 people were shot and wounded. This is awful because for this amount of death, harmfulness, and disappearance of people to go unnoticed is awful. It’s one of the many reasons why communism was such a terrible