The Soviet Union UGLY History

The Soviet Union History

[source: Mark Humphrys]

The Soviet state was a steady killer of millions for decades - through executions, gulags and state-caused famine.

The 1917 revolution - A disaster. A tragedy for Russia and the world that the Reds won. An appalling step backwards into tyranny. An appalling crime to replace the Tsar with Lenin's murderous tyranny, a thousand times more murderous than the Tsar's regime.

The Lenin / Trotsky period, 1917-24

Some people think Lenin and Trotsky were "not as bad" as Stalin, that the 1917 revolution was not criminal from the start, but only became criminal later. This is one of the greatest lies in history. Lenin and Trotsky killed 4 million people - men, women and children - by mass executions, death camps, and state-caused famine. See [The Black Book of Communism] for a good introduction to their genocide, which started as soon as they got into power in 1917.

The resistance

All across the Russian countryside in 1917-22, there were riots and uprisings as heroic peasants tried desperately to hold on to their freedom. They were well aware of the nature of the scum that had taken over their country. These forgotten heroes were killed by the million. Their families - men, women and children - were executed or sent to death camps. Their villages were burnt, and even bombed with chemical weapons by the monsters Lenin and Trotsky.

Russian White Guard and Anti-Communism movement

The Tambov rebellion of 1920

It is true that the anti-communist resistance came in many forms, from liberal democrats to socialist anarchists to Jew-hating nationalists. The latter carried out hundreds of pogroms of Jews. In some areas, the Russian civil war was a conflict between communism and democracy. In other areas, it was a conflict between communism and fascism. But no crimes by (some of) their enemies can justify the crimes of Lenin and Trotsky.

The famine

The Bolsheviks destroyed Russia's economy. By 1920 the ruble had lost 96 percent of its value.

Lenin and Trotsky's oppression became ferocious as the cities ran out of food due to the collapse of the economy, caused by themselves and their stupid Marxist ideas. Innocent rural Russia was robbed of its food and butchered and starved by the parasitical (literally) urban communists.

The Bolsheviks started a massive program of confiscating the food of the countryside, and starved them into submission. The monsters Lenin and Trotsky deliberately started a famine as a political weapon. They caused the massive famine of 1921-2, deliberately killing 2.5 million men, women and little children, according to [Rudolph J. Rummel], or 5 million, according to [The Black Book of Communism].

The genocide of the Cossacks in 1919

The Red Terror in Russia, Sergei Melgunov, 1925 - about the early Bolshevik atrocities, under Lenin.

The Stalin period, 1924-53

[The Black Book of Communism, Ch.7] shows that even in 1930 there was still heroic peasant resistance to collectivization. Brave peasants even managed to kill hundreds of Soviet officials. But the Soviet state slaughtered 6 million of them.

The Ukrainian Famine

In 1932-3, Stalin and his butchers deliberately starved to death around 7 million utterly innocent men, women and little children, mainly in the Ukraine. Their food was stolen by the government, and every measure was taken to prevent them obtaining any food.

In World War Two, the west was allied with this sick genocidal monster - the worst case of realpolitik in the history of the free world.

The Stalin terror

The Great Terror, Robert Conquest, 1968 - estimates that 5 million people were murdered in 1935-8 alone.

Rudolph J. Rummel estimates 4 million people murdered, with a possible high of 11 million people (see here and here), in 1935-8 alone.

Gendercide: The staggering cruelty of the monster Stalin

World War Two

Not so well known, and hard to believe, is that even in World War Two, the Soviet state was still the no.1 killer of Soviet citizens, with the Nazis no.2. Even in wartime, Stalin's regime was killing more of its own people than even an invading barbaric army could.

In general, totalitarian government is more murderous than all-out war.

It is also often forgotten that the Soviet Union was allied with the Nazis for the first 2 years of the war.

The Soviet famine of 1946-7 (1 to 1.5 million dead) was again caused by the Soviet government.