How Did Stalin Kill People

In total forty million people died in this massacre. The first people rounded up were the Trotskyites. This massacre matters because forty innocent million people died. Just like what Hitler but Stalin didn’t like Hitler but he did the same thing as hitler but the only difference was that Stalin killed his own people. The people that Stalin they could’ve done some good for the world and they could’ve changed how we thought as humans. But we will never know now because these innocent people are killed. At least one person out of those forty million people killed could’ve done some good. Forty million people that’s a lot of grandchildren that will never see

the world because so many women were killed. The Great Purge was a period in the 1930’s of mass repression in the Soviet Union during the Communist Party leadership under Joseph Stalin used execution and mass imprisonment. It was to destroy any potential political opposition. Just like Hitler Stalin put fear in people’s eyes during the uprise of the communist army because each person was was skeptical of the next person's move. They do that so they make preemitive choices that would help further themselves. Anyone perceived as a potential threat to regime authority, including some of it’s strongest political supporters and most of their senior officers. Their officers were either sent Gulag prison system or sent into forced labor or in internal exile in Siberia and other remote regions. The most intense period of the Purge was from 1936 to 1938 while Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was head of the ministry of internal affairs NKVD. In Moscow, several show trials were held, to convince domestic and foreign opinion of the existence of a vast anti-Soviet conspiracy and to serve as examples for the trials that local courts were expected to carry out elsewhere in the country.Almost all of the Bolsheviks who had played prominent roles during the 1917 Russian Revolution, or in Lenin's Soviet government afterwards, were executed or exiled during this period. Leon Trotsky went into exile in Mexico, but was murdered by a Soviet agent in 1940. Were only a minor part of the Purges, and one of their purposes was to divert the world's attention from what was going on the rest of the country.

Nearly a million people were executed by firing squad in the period 1936 - 1939, and millions more were arrested and sent off to prison or labor camps, where most of them died. Stalin personally ordered the trials of about 44,000 and signed thousands of deaths warrants. But he also ends early release from work camps for good behavior. Seven million purges were in the labour/ death camps, also hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered. In the worst for example there was a camp called Kolyma gold-mining region in the Arctic, the survival rate was just two or three percent. Arrest from 1937-1938 was about seven million, executed about one million, died in camps about two million, in prison late 1938 about one million, in camps late 1938 about eight million. Stalin said this quote ‘Death solves all problem, no man no problem’. This relates to the purge because he must've had problems with a lot of people so that may be why he killed all those people. Almost all of the Bolsheviks who had played prominent roles during the 1917 Russian Revolution, or in Lenin's Soviet government afterwards, were executed or exiled during this period. Leon Trotsky went into exile in Mexico, but was murdered by a Soviet

agent in 1940. Nearly a million people were executed by firing squad in the period 1936 - 1939, and millions more were arrested and sent off to prison or labor camps, where most of them died. For the prisoner's death was the best way to go because they knew that they would be tortured. Stalin believed that he would not trust the Red Army, especially the senior officers. He was convinced that they were plotting a coup against him. Thirty thousands members of the army were executed, which represented fifty percent of the officer corps and three out of five Marshals. Military historians have part blamed this cull of Red Army officers for the Wehrmacht’s success during the first few days of ‘Operation Barbarossa’ – that the army was led by inexperienced officers who did not know how to react to the situation the Red Army was in. The initial success of Barbarossa was built on by experienced Wehrmacht officers and the Red Army had to wait until the likes of Zhukov had made their name at Stalingrad. With the army purged as well as the Old Guard, Stalin now felt strong enough to purge the NKVD – the very organisation that had been carrying out his desired purges. Stalin was scared that senior NKVD officers knew too much and that this information could be held against him in future years. Stalin announced that the NKVD had been infiltrated by fascists and that they had arrested and executed innocent people. Lavrenty Beria was appointed to hunt out the fascists in the NKVD. Many of those who held senior positions in the NKVD were found guilty and executed including three former chiefs of it. Once Stalin came to power ninety-three of the one hundred thirty nine Central Committee members were put to death. Also, the Armed forces eighty-one out of the one hundred three generals and admirals were executed. The Communist was purged about a third of its three million members were killed. Photographs and books were changed to eliminate even the memory of people who had been arrested. Some twenty million ordinary Russians were sent to the Gulug it was a system of labour camps mostly in Siberia where half of those people died. The christian church and Muslim religion was not allowed. Ethnic groups were persecuted and Russification the acceptance of Russian language and customs was enforced throughout the Soviet Union. People who had annoyed their neighbours were turned to the NKVD that was the secret police and arrested and never seen again. Everybody had to praise Stalin, all the time. Newspapers credited him with every success. Poets thanked him for bringing them harvest. People leapt to their feet to applaud every time his name was mentioned. His picture was everywhere parents taught their children to love Stalin more than themselves. They dared not do anything else. It's important because Stalin single handedly change Russia forever it could be a better country but since he killed an entire generation it will stay the same as it is now. One of those people that he killed could've done some major good for that country but now we will never know they could have changed the way we think but now we will never know.