What Soviet Dictators Have Done in the Past

[Smaland]

According to the video, "in Berlin alone, at least 140 people die in the attempt" to escape across the Wall.

[catgeorge]

Need to balance it up with Who the U.S has bombed and invaded in the past for no reason

Actually there was a reason - Dumocracy and Freedums

[Smaland]

Need to balance it up with Who the U.S has bombed and invaded in the past for no reason

Actually there was a reason - Dumocracy and Freedums

Overall, the Western media has ignored the sins of Communist dictators in recent decades, whether they've been of Soviet, Chinese, or some other nationality. This steady, practiced avoidance of salient facts leads people to forget about historical events that have occurred, or else they never even learn about them to begin with. On the other hand, there's already plenty of information on the internet about what the West has done in previous times, including the U.S. This thread does a little to restore the balance.

If you wish to start a thread about what the U.S. has done in recent years, the opportunity is there. As for me, I will continue to post about what Soviet dictators have done in the past.

[Kraubart]

From its beginning, the Soviet Union implemented stupid and experimental policies towards peasant and agrarian economies. The most bizarre are the failures of farm collectivization during Stalin, which led to a general collapse in production. I could start a whole topic about peasants in Soviet union which I would accompany with official Soviet articles.

In the early 1930s, the Soviet government forced entry into collective farms (kolkhozes) which did not bring success and were fruitless because in collective economies one does not work with motivation and will.


Harvests in the early 1930s were very poor so that general collectivization and collective farms (kolkhozes) became amorphous and frivolous.
This led to a struggle between the state and the peasants for agricultural products. Requisitions were carried out on a large scale and peasants were robbed of their hard-earned grain. When a peasant could not get food, he was forced to take grain from the collective farm that he produced himself to feed himself and his children. This action was understood as theft of state property and sabotage. Rigorous draconian laws were passed, but these laws were not sufficient at all, so in 1933 they established the "light cavalry" (children) to oversee the harvest. Children, young pioneers were forced to monitor their parents and "saboteurs" who were getting their own produced food and report them to the state authorities or the communist party. There was a tendency to encourage peasant children against their own parents. "The life of pioneer organizations in the countryside was filled with concrete tasks."


Soviet newspapers were full of praise for the "pioneers" who denounced their parents (grain thieves), and many parents were shot because of the denunciation of their children. Even children from the city were brought in for this job of overseeing the harvest. So it was a terrible and bizarre system that forced children to accuse their parents.

[Smaland]

Novocherkassk is a city in southern Russia, north and east of Rostov-on-Don. On June 2, 1962, according to the Wiki article about the massacre, "Protesters gathered near the city's central administrative building did not disperse when ordered by the surrounding Soviet troops, who then opened fire, killing 26 and wounding 87, including children."

[Smaland]

According to the Wiki article about the "January Event', "14 civilians (were) killed", "1 civilian died due to heart attack", and "702 (were) injured".

[Smaland]

"A memorial for the victims of (the) Medininkai border post massacre" Photo credit: Baltic News Service

"Mindaugas Balavakas and Algimantas Juozakas (officers of the rapid response team ARAS), Juozas Janonis and Algirdas Kazlauskas (traffic police officers), Antanas Musteikis and Stanislovas Orlavicius (customs officers) were [all] killed [outright]. Customs officer Ričardas Rabavičius suffered a [fatal] head injury and died in hospital on August 2. The only survivor, customs officer Tomas Šernas, sustained severe brain damage and became disabled."

All the quotations in this post were posted along with the article linked to below.

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In the early hours of July 31, 1991, seven Lithuanian officers were shot and killed at Medininkai border post by the Russian special police forces (OMON), just months after the January 13, 1991, Soviet crackdown in Vilnius.

Lithuania had declared independence form the Soviet Union in March 1990 and was trying to build up state institutions and take charge of its territory. It built customs posts along its borders with Belarus and Kaliningrad, which became one of the symbols of its struggle for independence.
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Full story at Lithuanian Radio and Television

[Smaland]

According to the Wiki article about the event, 21 people were killed and over 100 were injured.

[Smaland]

"The 1986 protests in central Almaty, on what was then called New Square, attracted thousands of students and young people." Casualty estimates vary, but according to the Wiki article about the massacre: "Sources cited by the US Library of Congress claim that at least 200 people died or were summarily executed soon after. Some accounts even estimate casualties at more than 1,000." The photo and the first quotation in the caption were both posted at the news article linked to below.

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From December 16-19, 1986, thousands of students and young workers held a protest at the central square in Almaty against Moscow's appointment of the new head of the then-Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Gennady Kolbin ... (Kolbin was) a non-Kazakh who had never before worked in the Kazakh Republic.

[According to a 1996 article at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) about the massacre, 'participants and witnesses say the protest was not mainly driven by nationalist fervor, but rather by anger at Moscow's arbitrary control over local politics.]

During a special military operation called Blizzard, special OMON troops and soldiers were used to suppress the protest, killing dozens of people and injuring many more.
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Full story in 2011 article at RFE / RL

[Smaland]

"On Saturday, April 1, 2023, the priests of Putna Monastery commemorated the thousands of Romanians massacred by the Soviets at Fântâna Albă. Photo: Putna Monastery" “April 1, 1941 is a day of tragic memory for the Romanian people. 82 years ago, more than 3,000 Romanians were killed at Fântâna Albă when they tried to cross into Romania after the annexation of northern Bukovina by the Soviet Union." The photo and both of the quotations above were posted along with the article linked to below.

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After the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact in 1939, the USSR occupied Bessarabia, northern Bukovina and Herta Land in 1940. Many Bukovina Romanians were arrested, killed, and deported, churches began to be closed, so many families began to cross the new border and come to Romania.

One such group was made of the thousands massacred at Fântâna Albă on April 1, 1941.

At the time, about (3,000) Romanians from Bukovinan villages along the Siret Valley left for Romania: from Pătrăuții de Sus, Pătrăuții de Jos, Igești, Crasna, Ciudei, Budineț, Cireșul, Crăsnișoara Veche, Crăsnișoara Nouă, Bănila Moldovenească, Dăvideni, Carapciu, Cupca, Trestiana, Suceveni, Iordănești. They had decided that they would rather die than live in the Soviet Union.

Those at the head of the group carried three crosses, icons and white flags, showing that they meant no harm, but wanted freedom. They told the Soviet authorities that they wanted to leave without taking anything with them, leaving all their possessions behind. When they reached the border they were met with machine-gun fire.
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Full story at basilica.ro