Historian and History Teacher
Foreign Agent Medal
Notes
1st question
was end of ussr greatest geopolitical catastrophe of 20th century?
10:1 – no
22:08 Background of Stalin
Difficulties
Repressions – needed
how to deal with returning slave laborers – checks –
collaborators imprisoned or killed – understanding of society
gives examples from gulag
people who had fought in the war were a danger to Stalin
how many of the confessions of ppl send to gulag were true?
28:50
about difficulties
they were not needed – picture of homecoming soldier greeted by family
vs. invalides
these were put into special homes – prikaz 1948 – they disappeared from public eye
Mainly putting forward the achievments – there were difficulties – that’s all – no details.
Mainly to put forward the gains that came about under the wise leadership of Stalin …
33:00 2nd Question – was fascism in 2nd world war destroyed thanks to Stalin?
Repressions are mentioned – but how?
The scale of repressions is not mentioned
their meaninglessness
the lack of justification
their cruelty
38 min examples of soldiers, generals Stalin feared and who were eliminated
Wallenberg – disappeared – kidnapped in Warsaw – murdered by kgb
Solomon Michaelis – theater guy – killed by a truck driving over him in minsk
Moving on
43:50
Number of examples and details about people being prosecuted – scientists, writers – but also about Beria.
- Sergei Khudyakov
- Grigory Kulik
- Georgy Zhukov
- Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II. While serving as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings which he declared as Swedish territory. - Solomon Mikhoels
Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (16 March 1890 – 13 January 1948) was a Latvian born Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. However, as Joseph Stalin pursued an increasingly anti-Jewish line after the War, Mikhoels’s position as a leader of the Jewish community led to increasing persecution from the Soviet state. He was assassinated in Minsk in 1948 by order of Stalin.
Many examples exists … executed scientists, executed engineers,
44:46 i dalsche …
1:07 – Back to USSR – poll
About brezhnev time – sweeter, yet …