10 Brutal Realities of Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union

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When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, his charismatic henchman Leon Trotsky seemed to be his most obvious successor. Instead it was Joseph Stalin, a man once described by Trotsky as a “dull grey blur” and a “nonentity” who had, by 1929, vanquished his political rivals and seized power for himself.

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10. The Soviet Famine of 1932-33
9. The Great Terror
8. The Activities of the NKVD were an Open Secret
7. Stalin’s Right-Hand Man was a Sadist and a Serial Killer
6. Suppression of Religion
5. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-45
4. Prisoners of War were Treated as Traitors
3. The Most Powerful Men in the Soviet Union were Routinely Humiliated
2. Siberian Gulags
1. The Cult of Stalin

Source/Further reading:

http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSfive.htm
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/the-great-terror/
http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSyezhov.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva-by-rosemary-sullivan-10328725.html
http://political-economy.com/karl-marx-religion/
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p-91_Sanning.html
http://www.historynet.com/soviet-prisoners-of-war-forgotten-nazi-victims-of-world-war-ii.htm
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-archives-stalin/churchill-and-stalin-in-all-night-wartime-drinking-session-idUSBRE94M0VE20130523
http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSsiberia.htm
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/soviet-propaganda-posters-ww2
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leon_trotsky.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stalin_in_July_1941.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stalin_in_1937.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F016200-32,_Russland,_B%C3%A4uerinnen_bei_der_Ernte.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%8C_%D1%85%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kulak_Chernov_in_the_Court.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GolodomorKharkiv.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HolodomorWindsor.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stalin_in_1934.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Commissar_Vanishes_2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voroshilov,_Molotov,_Stalin,_with_Nikolai_Yezhov.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poster_of_Azerbaijan_1938._Stalin,_Lenin.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/36752773471
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1930_jagoda.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ezhov.PNG

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