What happened to people that disagreed with Joseph Stalin?

Answer 1

Joseph Stalin sent people to Siberia when they didn't agree with him. He would have some people shipped to work camps in Siberia, exiled from the country or imprisoned and/or executed.

Obviously, Stalin did not do those things to everyone who had a disagreement with him. He accepted some disagreements and had many more less extreme methods of dealing with such people.

Stalin might have someone expelled from positions in the organs of the Communist Party or from the Party itself. He might dismiss someone from a job or position. Some people simply fell out of his favor and were relegated to unimportant tasks.

If Stalin did not do those things to the person who disagreed with him, he might do them to a close family member of that person. Stalin had the wife of his Prime Minister and closest adviser during World War 2, Molotov, arrested and imprisoned.

To some people, like Leon Trotsky, Stalin did "all of the above."

He did this even to his own friends and family.

As Stalin became more powerful, he became more ruthless. As he became more ruthless, he became more paranoid and fearful of revenge. He believed that differences of opinion meant lack of loyalty, which he saw as a sign of a potential threat from that person against him.

Answer 2

death