Gulag

Special passports were imposed in December of 1932, and any person who opposed to the Holodomor was known as a “kulak.” Independent farmers were known as kulaks if they resisted collectivization. Furthermore, kulaks didn’t want collectivization of their farms because it would mean having to share their prosperity. Symbolization wasn’t big in the Holodomor. Ukrainian peasants were easily identified, because of where they lived. In the end, symbolization wasn’t needed for the USSR genocide.…

Algeria was a country that was once controlled by France for the majority of its history, but eventually gained independence in 1962. Algeria has overcome political turmoil and conflict that resulted in Abdelaziz Bouteflika becoming the president in 1999, and the government today is still under his leadership, while relying heavily on the usage of hydrocarbons. Algeria’s main language is Arabic, and the people there are predominantly Muslim.Flag of Algeria.svg Papua New Guinea was a…

A powerful dictator named Joseph Stalin established a regime that focused to modernize the Soviet Union and destroy the Nazi hierarchy. Shortly after the death of Vladmir Lenin in December of 1879, Stalin gained control of the Communist Party, by assuming the role of General Secretary. Due to his decision to control the agriculture, famine swept across the land killing millions in its path. The few exceptions were innocents captured and taken to camps. Leader of the Red Army, Stalin led his men…

The Juche ideology celebrates the greatness of the Korean race as embodied in the figures of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, and in that of his successor the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. According to the testimonies of North Korean defectors, starting from their childhood people are taught to look at the two Kim as semi-divine infallible heroes which devoted their life in the struggle against Western and Japanese imperialism. Consistent with these findings, C. Richardson provided some precious insight…

In 1948, the United Nations defined genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group….” The Ukrainian Famine, which lasted from 1932-1933 was a famine in the Soviet controlled Republic of Ukraine, in which more than 7 million people perished and died from starvation. This famine, also known as the Holodomor, was true to the meaning; people were not being sacrificed for a cause, instead they were dying for no reason…

concentration camps, Kuznetsov points out that the Soviet Union had a system of labour that predated that of the Nazis. Timothy Snyder supports this, mentioning that the Soviet state had a system of over 476 complex concentration camps known as the Gulag that had existed as a single system since 1931. These labour camps in many cases were extremely harsh, as death rates were high. In essence, Ukrainian liberation from the Nazis, in Kuznetsov’s opinion, was not a form of liberation at all.…

Holocaust Survivor, Elie Wiesel, in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference” (1999), vouches that having an apathetic attitude to a situation is dangerous a society in need of help. He supports his claim by gaining credibility from his audience and uses imagery to help, then addresses briefly about his past life and an example of when indifference occurred, and finally, shoves everything that transpired in the past and hints what we can do differently in the future. Wiesel’s purpose is to entice…

But the campaign had caused lasting devastation, the exact numbers may never be known, but most historians estimate that millions of Russians were either executed or shipped off to the dreaded Siberian gulags between 1936 and '38. Perhaps the Soviet psyche suffered just as much damage, as an entire nation and its attendant culture sank into a deep-seated paranoia and a frightened submission to the state, the effects of which are still being felt in Russia today. This was, not coincidentally, the…

The Gulag Archipelago claims, “Sleeplessness befogs the reason, undermines the will, and the human being ceases to be himself, to be his own ‘I’” (Solzenicyn). Sleep deprivation occurs when a person has gone without sleep for an extended period of time. This condition is progressive and affects every aspect of the body. Sleep helps regulate emotions, behavior, and physical health. Getting an adequate amount of rest each night reduces one's chances of having serious health concerns. An array of…

The Five-Year Plan (FYPs) were introduced by Joseph Stalin for Soviet industrialisation.The series of FYPs were meant to modernise Soviet industry and to match and overtake the other Western powers who by an industrial revolution had managed to modernise their industries and increase their industrial output. The FYPs were implemented to fulfil various purposes.Most of the USSR was very backward in the industrial sector.The USSR had the resources but did not have the infrastructure and…