Gulag

In a day and age when we hear “Russia” and “fake news” in every other news cast, it is shocking that one of the worst cases of propaganda and fake news has yet to be totally publically accepted. Known as “Holodomor” the Ukrainian genocide continues to be one of Russian dirtiest, well kept secret. Starting in the late 20’s the with mass arrests and deportations, it culminated with a man-made famine from 1932-1933, it is believed that Stalin was able to kill between 7 to 14 million Ukrainian…

sent to these labor camps, also knows as Gulags, were farmers who refused to work on the collective farms. The most severe consequence to refusal to work was immediate death. Both Stalin and Lenin ruled with having people fear the government by using totalitarianism. This expanded even further with the use of the secret police that would spy in schools and encourage people to reveal anyone who was against the leader. Those people would be sent to the Gulags in Siberia and would most likely never…

City, Utah. The song of the day was Al Jolson singing Brother Can You Spare a Dime, a definitive rendition depicting the sentiment during the Great Depression. In 1927 there was a world depression and, the Soviet Union with Josef Stalin created the Gulag a labor camp in which many people died. World War I veterans created the Bonus Army in 1932, which led to a march on Washington D.C. in which the veterans demanded payment for bonus certificates that were issued in 1924. Confrontation between…

civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations (Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin), bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima. And, on a different level, of course, Auschwitz and Treblinka. So much violence; so much…

reduced unemployment and improved the production of materials such as food and metal. However, Stalin wasn’t all good. If you didn’t agree with him and his government, and they found out, you would be sent to labour or concentration camps called Gulags by Stalin’s secret police force known as NKVD or Narodny Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del which translates to People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs or were executed. This meant that he created the worst man-made famine in…

The last theme that is expressed in Animal Farm is class distinction or class hierarchy. Throughout the book there are many examples of class hierarchy. One example of class hierarchy is expressed on chapter 8. .In chapter 8 the most protruding expression of class hierarchy is exemplified through the text. In the text George Orwell states, “Napoleon inhabited separate apartments from the others. He took his meals alone, with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby dinner…

The story of Animal Farm is not just the the tale of animals following a set of dictated rules in order to be liberated from the so called evil Mr. Jones. Rather the tale seeks to use the character of Mr. Jones to mask the underlying villain, Napoleon, and their character’s allegorical meaning during Russia’s attempt towards westernization. George Orwell, in Animal Farm, criticizes the totalitarian rule of Napoleon the pig, whom mirrors the rule of Joseph Stalin over communist Russia, along with…

In situations of extreme crisis, such as where it is at stake is the survival of the individual, human nature shows its true face, and reveals that self-preservation, survival instinct, guides us, it takes away the reason that is what distinguish humans from animals, and turns them into simple beasts. Humans lose control over their actions, or at least start to think in a different way, by focusing o So it happens that some people lose completely the ability to have feelings, others sink into…

Similarities Between Two Powerful Leaders History had many great leaders, some of them extremely intelligent and strategic, and also had other amazing qualities. But with those qualities, there came some leaders with very bad intentions. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were two of those great leaders. Hitler took Germany out of the great depression, while Stalin took the Soviet Union and made it one of the top military forces in the world. However, as Machiavelli once said, the ends do not…

political affairs influenced the literature at the time. Similarly, Soviet Russia under the reign of Stalin endured heavy censorship of the arts as well; artists, novelists, and poets that opposed the restrictions were often imprisoned and died in the Gulag. During the rise of totalitarian regimes, the burden of oppression weighed down on the creative mind, ultimately squandering the development of the arts. Through the desensitization of media and art and literature, personal political…