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    interpretations. But, in a Gulag labour camp, where “a convict’s thoughts are no freer than he is” (40) – subjected only to the unjust oppression by the Soviet government – their ideas of what the sun and moon can mean is significantly repressed to ideas of misfortunes that are perpetuated by the camp and the government. In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the sun and the moon are symbols of two ideas that derives from the prisoner’s experience in the Gulag…

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    Hannah Arendt, a political theorist, once said “The masses have to be won by propaganda.” This quote exemplifies one of the ruling methods utilized by both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin ruled Russia from 1924 to 1953, while Adolf Hitler ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. Given that Joseph Stalin ruled for more years than Adolf Hitler, one may reasonably conclude that the impact of Stalin’s rule would be greater than that of Hitler. However, Hitler was much more impactful on his…

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    Who was more diabolical, Adolf Hitler, or Joseph Stalin? Diabolical Of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil.- Merriam Webster Dictionary Joseph Stalin was born to a hardworking mother (Keke Geladze) and an abusive father, (Besarion Jughashvili). Besarion was an alcoholic cobbler, and in his drunken rages, beat Joseph and his wife. This is what may have given Stalin his cold and cruel demeanour. After separating from her husband Keke held down many jobs to provide for both her and her…

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    of communism. They created their own version of a communism, one that would benefit themselves, as well as (they thought) Russia. Among one of those leaders was Joseph Stalin, a dictator who brought many years of isolation, repression, paranoia and gulags to the Russian people. Stalinism greatly differed from Marxism by ignoring the class struggle, and being a communist dictatorship.…

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    stalin was in power he was paranoid made the military stationed to defend the country to look for these spies. Russian police were given quotas to fill when it came to finding spies and if they couldn't then they would be sent to a Russian prison or “Gulag”. This caused thousands…

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    marginalized positions and lastly halted any attempted uprisings with violent actions. Soviet President Joseph Stalin maintained his power by establishing a labor camp called the Gulag, where he would send people who spoke out against him. This created fear within the Soviet citizens due to the uncertainty of being sent to the Gulag or never returning, forcing citizens to avoid uprising against their communist leader. Stalin also utilized propaganda that showed false representations…

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    Causes Of Evil Stalin

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    “When I was young, a stray cat used to hang around my house a lot. My dad would give it milk and some food all the time. One day, an old racist couple moved next door. My mom and I went over to welcome them, they creaked the door open and yelled, “get off our property you freaking Filipinos and tell your other black neighbors to stay away!” Well one day, they saw my dad feed the stray cat. Later that afternoon, my dad went to take the trash out and heard a horrible crying near our fence. He goes…

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    their political leadership, most prominently through the establishment of concentration camps. Stalin viewed many people in the Soviet Union to be his enemy. The fate of these people was to be either killed or sent to forced labor camps, known as the Gulags, due to a variety of reasons. Political leaders, wealthier peasants (known as kulaks), criminals of all types, and essentially anyone suspected of opposing Stalin’s rule were sent to these concentration camps to provide free labor for the…

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    the party she has planned for the night Ivan will return. Nikolay silently admits that he had the same thought moments earlier. Thirty years his cousin was in the Gulag, and the first thought he has is how his dinner party guests will be put-off by this strange man coming into their party. We then find out how Nikolay avoided the Gulag. In this time of the Soviet Union, whistle-blowers were looked kindly upon by the police, and when Nikolay came under some scrutiny, he immediately blew his…

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    limited the production of consumer goods,also he controls the media and the religion part in russia. Joseph Stalin had Gulags for political prisoners who spoke on stalin, thieves, murders and innocent people in the gulags. The gulags were combinations of violence, supreme climate, hard labor ,inadequate food rations and unhealthy conditions that led to high death rate in the gulag…

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