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Joseph Stalin
Born Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878 – 1953), Stalin was the first General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. He assumed a lead role in Soviet politics following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924.
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Joseph Stalin had several five-year plans to assist in the development of the USSR.
When was Joseph Stalin president?
yes he was russia's president and he's got a city in his name; Staligrad
What were Joseph Stalin's favorite things to do?
watched movies, films and listened to classical music.
Did Joseph Stalin get arrested?
Actually, he was, 'On 18th April, 1902, Stalin was arrested after coordinating a strike at the large Rothschild plant at Batum. After spending 18 months in prison Stalin was deported to Siberia.'
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How did Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler become friends?
They never did become friends. Hitler hated all communists and Stalin hated all capitalists. They entered into a Non Aggression Pact before World War 2 began, but it was not because they wanted the world to know they were pals. Hitler wanted it so the Soviet Union would not attack Germany from the east when it attacked France, Belgium and Holland on the west. Stalin wanted it so he could be sure that Germany would not attack it. They both want the pact because it secured their borders and secretly agreed how Poland was to be divided up between them when both Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland.
Stalin was the Commissar of State Control and then the Commissar of Nationalities under Lenin.
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hilter were both?
In a non aggression pact from August 23, 1939, (Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which means the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years) and was broken with the invasion of the Soviet Union on Sunday, 22 June 1941.
Did the Holocaust really happen?
This is a question that the children of the future will be asking if we do nothing to change it. The people who participated in the Holocaust are dying off, and people want to stop teaching kids about it. If we completely erase memory of the Holocaust, we leave room for history to repeat itself. We have to learn from the mistakes of mankind. If we do not, we could end up in a world of violence and destruction.
So, my answer to your question is yes. The Holocaust did happen, and it should be remembered. When you read this, I hope that you post many, many questions about the Holocaust so that the people on this site will forever remember this terrible part of our past.
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Yes it absolutley did we had people who are alive now who went through it. Personal accounts by survivors of the Holocaust are powerful. They connect us, person to person, with an era in history that is difficult, yet necessary, to comprehend. Survivor testimony translates the countless unimaginable victims into a single person's feelings and thoughts.
There are 350,000 survivors of the Holocaust alive today... There are 350,000 experts who just want to be useful with the remainder of their lives. Please listen to the words and the echoes and the ghosts. And please teach this in your schools.
--Steven Spielberg, Academy Award acceptance speech
Inner Exile: Life in Hiding
Some victims found that they were in danger from Nazi persecution too late to leave their countries. Others thought the Nazi dictatorship could never survive. For many, Nazi racial policy was too irrational to even comprehend. Many Jews felt that they were as much German, Dutch, French, or Polish as anyone else in their communities.
Life in hiding from the Nazis was a daily struggle. Those hidden lived in constant terror of being discovered. People in hiding were discovered frequently. The consequences of being found for hiders and those hiding them were grave, often resulting in brutal death at the hands of special police squads.
My parents, my brother, and I ran through the kitchen into the pantry outside. In an open bicycle shed behind the house, we tried desperately to hide on the floor between bicycles and pieces of wood. Our luck had run out. Within minutes the house was surrounded by Nazis.
--Anita Mayer
Bronia Beker tells how her family hid in caves they dug themselves.
Ernest and Elisabeth Cassutto's story of survival is told by their son George.
Sally Eisner survived a search by Ukrainian police by hiding under a bed with her brother.
Joseph Heinrich was born in Germany. Soon after Kristallnacht he left for Holland, where he lived in hiding. He traveled from Holland to Spain, much of the way on foot. In 1944, he emigrated to Palestine.
Alfred Lessing recalls childhood memories of hiding in the Netherlands.
Yettie Mendels was born in Holland and lived underground for the duration of the war.
Bram Pais' account of his life during the Holocaust describes his years of hiding in the Dutch underground. Near the end of the war he was arrested and imprisoned.
Agnes Vadas describes losing her father to injuries incurred during an air raid in Budapest.
Erika Van Hesteren, a Dutch woman, recounts the years she lived in hiding during the war.
Sophie Yaari, born in Germany, tells about life in Germany in the 1930s. She remembers Kristallnacht. She and her sister went to Holland, where they survived by living in hiding for years.
Exile: Flight in and through Europe
Many survivors either sensed the danger awaiting them if they stayed in their hometowns accross Europe, or were forced to leave their homes. For those who left, it often meant that they would see their friends and relatives for the last time. Life in exile was full of fear and uncertainty. It consisted of dependence on the charity of strangers and a lot of luck. One had to keep one step ahead of Nazi hunger for Lebensraum.
So, on August 10, one day before my birthday, my father and my sister--I had an older sister who did not go to England because she was too old to go as a child and she would have had to go as a servant and my father didn't want that--we went to the railroad station in Berlin. There were maybe 50 or 100, I don't know the number, other children. All were Jewish. I think we were the only half Jews on this Kindertransport saying goodbye to their parents.
--Helga Waldman
Ernest Dr�cker tells his story of escape from Vienna as a teenager.
Marietta Dr�cker tells her story of rescue from Vienna on a Kindertransport.
Betty Grebenschikoff tells her story of escape to Shanghai.
Marie Silverman tells her story of escape from Antwerp.
Helga Waldman tells her story of leaving Germany on a Kindertransport.
Suzanne Klein was born in Romania. In November, 1944 she was deported and eventually sent to Russia.
Kurt Lenkway paddled a kayak to freedom from Germany to Switzerland in 1938. His family made its way to the United States in 1941.
Oskar Blechner sailed on the ill-fated SS St. Louis, but was granted refuge in Great Britain when the ship was returned to Europe.
Shanghai was a refuge during the Holocaust for thousands of Jews who had nowhere else to go.
Christine Damski was a journalism student in Poland in the late 1930s. She moved throughout eastern Europe eluding the Germans.
Renata Eisen credits her survival to the strength and perseverance of her mother and the assistance of Italian villagers.
In an interview format, Walter F. describes in great detail life in Germany during the rise of Nazism. He was arrested during Kristallnacht and went to Buchenwald. He tells of his time in Shanghai, China.
Helen L. tells the story of how she and her sister survived as two young girls living in the woods of eastern Europe.
Death Factories and Forced Labor
The chances of surviving the war in any of the Nazi death, concentration, or labor camps were slim to none. Those who did survive are the sole witnesses to the horrors put into action behind the barbed electric fences surrounding Nazi compounds. Their stories remind us of the atrocities humans are capable of when led to believe those who are different from them are sub-human or otherwise undesirable.
So then we had to march in rows of five, which became the daily norm, and we walked through the night, and we heard music, and we heard all kinds of miserable noises. When it was almost light, we came to the sauna. We came to big low buildings and whoever was left was numbered. I was number two, I can show you. O.K. and they kept telling us how lucky we were that we might be able to live because we have a number.
--Anita Mayer
Anita Mayer tells her story of arrest and life in a concentration camp.
Judy Cohen tells of her life from the time the Nazis occupied her home country of Hungary to her liberation from a death march.
Irene Csillag recalls her life in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Stutthof camps.
Elisabeth De Jong describes the so-called medical experiments inflicted upon her and other women at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
In an interview format, Lucille E. gives a lengthy, detailed, and personal account of her life before the war in Germany, during the war, living in several concentration camps, and in her life in America, after liberation.
Alexander Ehrmann tells of life in Auschwitz and other camps. He was also sent to Warsaw after the uprising to help with clean up and salvage operations. (Acrobat and RealAudio files)
Rabbi Baruch G., a Polish survivor, describes forced labor in Mlawa.
Gabor Hirsch was born in Hungary. In his brief account he tells of his time in Birkenau and his liberation there.
Judith Jagermann describes in detail her experience in several concentration camps.
Abram Korn's story is told in excerpts from his book and by means of an interactive map.
Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor, gave this interview upon his return visit to the camp in 1982.
Filip Muller was born in Slovakia and survived the Auschwitz camp. His brief, but detailed account tells about the crematorium in Auschwitz.
Edith P., a Dutch survivor, was deported to Auschwitz. (Photo, video, audio, and text)
Abraham Pasternak describes life in Romania during the occupation and his experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. (Acrobat and RealAudio files)
Helen R. is a Polish survivor who was deported to Auschwitz.
Judith Rubinstein describes the selection process at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Peter S., a German child survivor, describes a selection at Ravensbr�ck. (Photo, video, audio, and text)
Anna W. is a Gypsy survivor who was deported to Ravensbr�k. (Photo, audio and video in German, text in English and German)
Cyla Wiener recalls her experiences in the Krakow ghetto and working as a seamstress in Plaszow, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. (Acrobat and RealAudio files)
Rescue and Risk
There are some hopeful and heart-warming stories survivors tell of rescue at the hands of non-victims. Whether officially recognized as righteous gentiles or not, these brave souls risked their lives and the lives of their families in order to preserve a sense of humanity in the brutal chaos caused by Nazi persecution. Many stories of rescue will never be told.
Their lives (my parents) were saved by the gentile farmers in that town. There were some very righteous non-Jewish people who had the courage to speak up. Many, many of them...Many of them lost their lives...Sometimes not enough is written about those courageuous non-Jews.
--Ernest Dr�cker
"A Good Man by the Name of Jeff." The story of one rescuer during the Holocaust as told by Anita Mayer. Herman Feder was in several concentration camps before being rescued by the Chlups in Czechoslovakia. He hid with the Chlup family for years.
Rachel G., a Belgian child survivor, was hidden in convents.
Eva and Henry Galler, Felicia Fuksman, Anne Levy, and Leo Scher relate their extensive survivor testimonies at the Louisiana Holocaust Survivor site.
Erna Blitzer Gorman tells of her experiences in various ghettos and of being hidden in a barn by a Ukrainian farmer for two years. (Acrobat and RealAudio files)
Ibi Grossman survived in a Budapest ghetto thanks in part to the intervention of Raoul Wallenberg.
Henny Juliard was living in The Hague in Holland at the beginning of World War II. She lived under the care of the Bochoves, a Dutch couple, for almost three years.
Alina Kentof was hidden in a Polish monastery as a child. She and her mother were later able to make their way to Palestine.
Dr. Olga Lilien was born in 1904 in Lvov, Poland. She lived through the war with the help of Barbara Szymanska Makuch's family.
Yes it did. There are people out there who don't know and don't believe it happened. There are also some who know it occured, but deny that it happened. I have no idea why. But, there is definite proof that the Holocaust occured, ask historians or survivers themselves. Also, I had 4 cousins and 2 uncles that fought in World War 2, and none of them died. My family wouldn't lie to me.
AnswerWell yes. the holocaust did occur. There is proof! There are pictues and documentaries from survivors.
AnswerThere isn't much doubt. A few people deny the evidence that the holocaust occurred, but they are usually mentally challanged, mentally unstable or racists.
AnswerYes, it certainly did happen. There's a lot of evidence and there are accounts by survivors and liberators, too. There's also evidence from the Nuremberg Tribunal and there are the records of the proceedings at the trials of some of the camp guards and Kommandants.
There is also evidence from those who committed the genocide. One of the most interesting is the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess (*not* to be confused with deputy fuehrer Rudolf Hess). Hoess was Kommandant of Auschwitz from its foundation in 1940 till late in 1943. He wrote the story of his life while awaiting trial, and although warned about the dangers of incrimminating himself, he presented the book to the court, as if he felt some deep-seated need to confess (and in a strange way, also justify himself). He was convicted and taken back to Auschwitz in 1947 and hanged just inside the main gate. The authenticity of the manuscript has been checked a number of times and all the experts agreed that it's completely genuine.
What's more, those who deny the Holocaust can't explain how six million Jews disappeared in 1941-45. Before 1939-40 many cities in Poland and Lithuania had large, flourishing Jewish communities and in many cases were thriving Jewish cutural centres - for example, Warsaw, Vilnius, Lemberg (Lviv), Czernowitz ... By 1945 these places had almost no Jews at all ... The same applies to places like Lodz and Lublin - and to countless places in Belarus and Ukraine - Minsk, Kiev, Odessa ... The death toll was staggering, and also the destruction of Jewish cultural life.
Moreover, there is archaeological evidence, such as the 33 mass graves at Belzec with about 10,000 skeletons found in each.
How did Stalin treat people Russia?
He was a horrible man who executed his officers without reason. He set a plan to reach his goals that was to take five years. The plan was taking private land from farmers and making them move on huge collective farms. He wanted to gain all control of Russia. He would kill those who resisted.
When did Stalin take over USSR?
After Lenin's death in 1924, there were two contestants for the post of head of the communist party: Staline and Trotsky. 3 years later, in 1927, Staline becoem ruler for he had more connections with the soldiers, he banished Trotsky to Siberia and later killed him, in 1940, in Mexico.
How many people has Stalin killed during his reign as dictator of the Soviet Union?
The generally accepted number is about 20 million.
Which czar used secret police to maintain strict control over the people?
As a citizen of Muscovy, you would have feared Czar Ivan IV, who ruled during the 1500s. Known as "Ivan the Terrible," he used a secret police force to tighten his iron grip on the people and control their lives. Known as "Ivan the Terrible," Ivan IV used a secret police force to tighten his iron grip on the people and control their lives.
Which year did Joseph Stalin become famous?
Before World War II, Stalin was a dictator in the Soviet Union who slaughtered all those who didn't like his ideas. During World War II, Stalin held off the Nazis and gradually pushed them back all the way to Germany on the Eastern Front.
Differences between between Stalin and Hitler?
The ruling strategy that Mussolini used was impressive to Hitler. The ruling strategy of Hitler was impressive to Stalin. Hitler and Stalin had similar tactics - rule by force and fear just like Mussolini.
Additional Input:- Stalin was the leader of Russia and a communist. Hitler was a nazi and hated communists (even though they had some shared beliefs) also Hitler was for Germany
- Stalin was the dictator of Russia and Hitler was the ruler of Germany during WWII.
Click on the related Q below to read 'What are the similarities between Hitler and Stalin?'
Stalin and Hitler were different in some of their tactics (due to one being Fascist and one being communist). Hitler immediatyl sought ot be adored by the entire country, even though he did use a certain element of fear to keep the people who disagreed with him in line.
Stalin's rule relied much heavier on force and fear, although he also had considerable amounts of support.
What did Joseph Stalin want for the Soviet Union?
He dreamed of power and control.
He wanted people to worship him.
To underestimate and ignore the role, demands and wishes of the working masses. Basically to let everyone know only what he wanted them to know, especially using children as secret police in schools so he could change the whole economys way of thinking in the future. He wanted to ban the way of Lenin's thinking, change his whole ideas. LiL_Dr3- Freshman at ERHS in Corona,CA.
What were some of Joseph Stalin's unique interests?
Some of Joseph Stalins unique interests were Western movies. He specifically liked movies with John Wayne in them. He enjoyed cowboy movies about the Wild West, and often watched them with other government officials.
How did Stalin develop the USSR?
It was a concentration camp-state in building. Lenin's rule involved the seizure of wealth and property by the state and the construction of the apparatus of international aggression (first given shape in the 1920 invasion of Poland) as well as internal oppression.
To clarify or add on to the previous answer, to ask how was the Soviet Union under Lenin is a very broad question. In order to have a clear understanding of the importance of Lenin and how he transformed Russia and the Soviet satellites, one must compare the state of the Soviet Union to the state it was in before the October Revolution. Comparing the situation of Russia to the situation in the United States or other parts of the world is not only narrow-minded, but also an invalid juxtaposition. Before Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power, Russia was a feudal state under oppressive control of the czar. Morally speaking, Lenin "liberalized" state policy toward the people by allowing them basic rights that we in America enjoy and even take for granted today, almost overnight. Women, who had grown accustomed to the male-dominated workforce were able to work and have the same rights as men in much less time than it took the United States. They could work, received benefits, gained the right to vote along with the rest of the country and anti-semitism was squashed and repugnant. Those out to blacklist the Soviet Union under Lenin argue there was no democracy, which is simply false. The republic system was solidified by Lenin and democracy was an imperative. In his own words, "Democracy is absolutely indispensable to socialism". It was not until Stalin that the revolution was betrayed and authoritarian rule of the voting system came into play. Universal healthcare was implemented, along with universal education and the attempt to eradicate the wage labor system. These institutions never reached the efficiency or efficacy that many other western countries did, but from coming from what little the Russians had taken by the nobility and monarchy to everybody having the chance to enjoy them. They industrialized and went from the dark ages to a major player in the industrialized world in a matter of a few years.
Why were the people of Russia still starving under Lenin? After the Bolsheviks took power a civil war ensued between the Reds (the Bolsheviks) and the White Guard, who were the hangers-on of the czar. These opponents of the Bolsheviks were backed by western powers to destroy the new ideology in power, even though the Bolsheviks were backed by these powers in the beginning to end WWI. Between assassination attempts and a continued onslaught of violent opposition, Lenin managed to introduce these changes to the people in spite of the hardships not in his favor. Thus, in order to combat these forces, War Communism was enforced which was the collectivization of all the soviets to support the cause of the Bolsheviks and drive the opposition out, also known as Total War which has been a technique used by governments since the French Revolution and before, where all the nations resources and labor force is used to combat the enemy. At which point the people began to be marginalized.
The gulags used to support these causes were full of dissidents, White Guard and spies (much like Guantanamo, with the exception of the White Guard), making this not an unknown phenomenon, but very familiar practice of many western states.
By the end of his life before Stalin took power, Lenin was very disenchanted with the direction the Soviet Union was going and felt that the revolution had been a result of ideological drift. Once Stalin was in, he solidified this belief and instead of using the fruits of the peoples' labor for their own good, secretly shipped their resources overseas for capitalist gain. Here is where the real starvation began to take place and the name and humanistic intentions of the socialist process became so soiled to the extent that many people laugh when it is mentioned, when in fact, many of them lost their lives fighting for them and the improvement of their situation. The questions that need to be asked presently are, "How did Stalin betray the revolution?" and, "Why was the situation of the Soviet Union not an example of the original ideology of the process of socialism?". But that is another story...
How were Stalin people killed?
Stalin held mass executions and purges. These were in order to keep law and to punish deserters. He also used them to eliminate threats to his power.
By far the greatest number of people killed by Stalin was through famine and resettlement of people in uninhabitable lands. Stalin's death count using these methods against certain peoples, societal classes and nationalities was the equivalent of genocide.
Millions of Ukrainians (and Russian peasants) were left to starve as their crops were forcibly requisitioned from them in amounts Stalin needed to fund his Five Year Plans without regard to whether the peasants were left enough to survive on.
Millions of "kulaks" (relatively well off peasants) were dispossessed of their lands (Stalin's policies of "collectivization" and "dekulakization") and sent in exile in Siberia to die of starvation or exposure to harsh climate conditions.
Were Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler both communists?
Neither of them were. Both were dictators who ruled over different versions of capitalism.
Compare and contrast Lenin and Stalin?
Vladimir Lenin
- Was a communist
- Believed in dictatorship
- Was also a totalitarian
- Was very hard working and modest
- Was cruel by most standards, used executions and traditional styles to mantain power
- Eliminated threats and opposition
- Was an imperialist
- Was aetheist.
Joseph Stalin
- Was a racist
- Was also a communist
- Also believed in dictatorship
- Was accordingly more power-hungry
- Was a totalitarian
- Was selfish to a degree
- Was more cruel (most peopel will agree), using them in larger scales and included racism.
- Also eliminated all threats and opposition
- Stalin had no confirmed imperialist demands, however, he did want to re-capture many USSR lands lost in the First World War.
- Was also an aetheist, beleieving like Lenin religion corrupted a country.
What was the cause of Russia becoming a totalitarian country?
Russia has never really been anything other than a totalitarian country until the fall of communism in 1990, and even now, Vladimir Putin is somewhat dictatorial for an elected President. If we go back in history we would find that the first unified government of Russia was that of Gengis Khan's Mongolian empire (specifically, it fell under the branch known as the Golden Horde); subsequently Russia was conquered by the Norse who founded the Russian monarchy which lasted until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917; all three of these forms of government were totalitarian. Any ruler powerful enough to establish a totalitarian state is likely to do so; people do not make concessions and weaken their own power unless forced to do so. Egocentric rulers always prefer absolute control, rather than having to make compromises and having to persuade people of the wisdom of their decisions (which often are not very wise anyway). However, there was a specific cause relating to the most extreme totalitarianism which Russia adopted in 1917, and that was WW I. The population of Russia was quite unhappy about the high cost to Russia of its alliance to France and England, which hardly seemed to justify the many deaths of Russian soldiers, and the Bolshevik Revolution was therefore primarily a pacifistic revolution, promising to take Russia out of the war as well as to remedy various other injustices resulting from the class sytem and the disparities of wealth and power which existed at that time. The Russian public did not know that the new injustices which would be inflicted by the communist party would be tremendously worse than the old ones which communism remedied. So, idealism fueled the adoption of a totalitarian system which promised everything and delivered very little.
What was the main goal of the political party for Stalin?
Stalin's main goal was rapid industrialization of Russia.
Rapid industrialization
