A group of people are looking for the bodies of their loved ones in the pile of dead people, what kind of tragic scene is this?
The Great Purge of the Soviet Union set an unprecedented precedent in the history of mankind.
Regarding the death toll of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, it is generally believed that at least 1.57 million people were sentenced, about 690,000 were executed, and about 700,000 were imprisoned in ** camps.
In comparison, the Battle of Kiev, the most costly battle of the Soviet-German war, caused only 700,000 casualties.
During this period, the officer class was almost wiped out, and people suspected that they were about to be arrested when they saw a car stopped outside their door.
The organization that carried out the Great Purge was called the Cheka, and its establishment was very much in line with Lenin's consistent assertion: "The overthrow of the old order and the success of the revolution required terror and violence." ”
During the Stalin years, the "Cheka" underwent several name changes, and later changed its name to the KGB.
In the 20s of the last century, the party comrades were extremely dissatisfied with the staff of the "Cheka", believing that they had become completely alienated, cold-blooded and ruthless, like man-eating demons.
After a lot of practice, the "Cheka" summed up a set of methods to coerce confessions to rectify people, and beating is pediatric, so that people can only have pleasure if they are worse than death.
Kolxiu used to be the secretary of the ** Committee of Ukraine, he has rough skin and thick meat, does not eat oil and salt, and is particularly resistant to fighting. However, in front of him, when his 16-year-old daughter was born, he was completely devastated.
Bukharin refused to confess, so his young and beautiful wife was ruined to death, and his newborn son was killed immediately.
Under the ** iron fist of the USSR, everyone's life and death were in the hands of the pen in the hands of the "loving father".
In order to speed up the efficiency of this pen, in 1934 at the direction of the "loving father", a three-person group was formed in the states of the USSR. The judiciary was replaced by a three-member team, and life and death sentences were handed down against countless Soviets.
Thus, between August 1937 and October 1938, more than 40,000 people were executed in Moscow, and at least 20,000 died at the Butovo shooting range. On the largest day, 562 people were executed.
With so many people executed, firing squads had to use excavators to bury the bodies.
The main goal of the Great Purge was to follow Lenin's heroic generals. During the Great Purge, about 1.2 million Soviet ** members were arrested.
The order of purges was first to the leadership, then to the Lenin and regional party committees, and finally to the Soviet Red Army and the command.
The Great Purge had a huge impact on the army, and Marshal Tukhachevsky was recognized as a genius general and a central figure in the Soviet Red Army.
He put forward the theory of large-depth operations and large-scale mechanized operations far ahead. However, it was such an outstanding general who was immediately shot after **.
The Great Purge nearly wiped out the officer class of the Soviet Red Army, which made it a disgrace in the 1939 war against Finland.
Hitler therefore considered the Soviet Union vulnerable, declaring that "if I kick the door of this ruined house of the Soviet Union, it will rot immediately." ”
In the early days of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet army was really defeated, and an important reason was that the Great Purge greatly damaged the vitality of the Soviet army.
After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the United States and Britain gave strong material assistance to the Soviet Union.
Without the massive assistance of the United States and Great Britain, the Soviet Union could not have won the Soviet-German war at all, a fact recognized by Stalin, Zhukov and Khrushchev.
Without the Great Purge, Hitler would not have taken military risks, which means that the Great Purge directly triggered the Soviet-German war and made the Soviets almost bleed.
There were also Orthodox Christians purged in the Great Purge, and the history and traditions of Russia were condensed in the Orthodox Church, and the destruction of the Orthodox Church was Lenin's last wish.
Stalin spared no effort in this, and during the purge, he executed 106,000 priests.
Those peoples who were perceived as unreliable were purged with great pride, first of all Poles, and secondly Ukrainians.
During the collectivization campaign, various ethnic groups of the Caucasus and Central Asia, such as the Chechens, were also purged. Therefore, when the Soviet-German war broke out, almost all Chechens helped the Germans in attacking the Soviet Red Army.
As for the intellectuals, they seem to be the most unreliable, and these sour elements know too much and it is difficult to ** them. Thus, since the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, the ** against the intelligentsia has never ceased.
The horrific devastation of the Soviet people by the Great Purge led to severe psychological trauma, and a culture of whistleblowing began to prevail.
The Soviet people began to Xi the appearance of the leaders, and began to sell their souls for the sake of material and power enjoyment, and the Russian nation was crippled.
Mental disability is more terrible than physical disability, so even if the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia once moved towards the road of freedom and democracy, it still can't escape the clutches of **.
The famous KGB, which said, "Give me 20 years, and give you back a strong Russia," also hated the Soviet purge.
In memory of the victims of the Great Purge, he said, "All of us should remember this historical tragedy, but not the tragedy itself." The reason why it needs to be commemorated is because we should be clear that for the sake of national development and progress, choosing a more effective path requires political debate, a big debate, an exchange of views and struggles, but all of this should be constructive, not destructive. ”
This is said quite horizontally, the so-called victor is not condemned, this is a kind of bandit logic. There are many ways to become a strong country, but at least you don't have to slaughter your own people like this.
As for the reasons for the Great Purge in the USSR, the Chinese are all too familiar.
The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook;The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden;The enemy country is broken, and the ministers are killed. ”
After the emperor seized the world, he was a famous general, which was a routine operation, and the main object of Stalin's purges was the old Bolsheviks, who were in the same vein as the emperor.
Before the philosopher Russell visited the Soviet Union, he had a beautiful illusion about the Soviet Union that was unique to that era. However, the trip to the Soviet Union made him realize the essence of its XE, FRL, and his illusions were completely shattered.
On his deathbed, Russell admonished, "Love is wise, hate is foolish!"”