Russian propaganda during the industrialization, encouraging citizens to support Stalin (left)
Joseph Stalin holding a baby with a Russian flag, representing a new and better Russia (Right).
Joseph Stalin holding a baby with a Russian flag, representing a new and better Russia (Right).
Leader of Brutality
Starting in the late 1920's and early 1930's, Stalin set out series of five year plans in order to change Russia from a peasant society to an industrial country. In order to change his country, Stalin decided to seize the lands that were given earlier to the peasants. He believed that collectivization, in which governments taking over farms and lands, would increase food production which would benefit the industrialization. However, most of the peasants and farmers opposed to his idea and were either sent to exile or executed as a punishment. Due to this, millions of people were killed in labor camps.
" Death is the solution to all problems. No man, no problem. "
- Joseph Stalin
Since then, Stalin tried to move his country with terror and eliminate anyone who doesn't agree with him. He would have secret police, encourage citizens to spy on one another which resulted in more deaths of his citizens. Stalin was successful in rapid industrialization, but resulted in many deaths and vast damage to the environment
Joseph Stalin had political and military support, if anyone tried to stop him he would simply have them put in jail or worse. Joseph Stalin would arrest thieves, criminals, people with different political ideas, rapists, murders. But where would he send these people? How would Joseph Stalin get all this industrialization completed, he needed laborers. There was a place called Gulag.
Gulag not the name of this place, for it was only the acronym. Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps).
How could you be sent to this camp?
If you stole, assaulted, murdered, raped, protested or anything similar that you could be sent there for a lot of years. Even people who had political positions in government that had different ideas were sent there. A woman named Maria Tchebotareva had three children who were starving so she stole 3 pounds of rye bread. This was during a massive famine, Soviet authorities sentenced her to ten years in Gulag. When she got out, after Stalin's death, she never saw her children again.
If you told a joke about the Communist Party you could be sentenced up to 25 years in Gulag for simply making a joke, Stalin enforced these rules seriously. Even though he was harsh leader, he changed Russia for the better and through this harsh forced labor, came industrialization.
Starting in the late 1920's and early 1930's, Stalin set out series of five year plans in order to change Russia from a peasant society to an industrial country. In order to change his country, Stalin decided to seize the lands that were given earlier to the peasants. He believed that collectivization, in which governments taking over farms and lands, would increase food production which would benefit the industrialization. However, most of the peasants and farmers opposed to his idea and were either sent to exile or executed as a punishment. Due to this, millions of people were killed in labor camps.
" Death is the solution to all problems. No man, no problem. "
- Joseph Stalin
Since then, Stalin tried to move his country with terror and eliminate anyone who doesn't agree with him. He would have secret police, encourage citizens to spy on one another which resulted in more deaths of his citizens. Stalin was successful in rapid industrialization, but resulted in many deaths and vast damage to the environment
Joseph Stalin had political and military support, if anyone tried to stop him he would simply have them put in jail or worse. Joseph Stalin would arrest thieves, criminals, people with different political ideas, rapists, murders. But where would he send these people? How would Joseph Stalin get all this industrialization completed, he needed laborers. There was a place called Gulag.
Gulag not the name of this place, for it was only the acronym. Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps).
How could you be sent to this camp?
If you stole, assaulted, murdered, raped, protested or anything similar that you could be sent there for a lot of years. Even people who had political positions in government that had different ideas were sent there. A woman named Maria Tchebotareva had three children who were starving so she stole 3 pounds of rye bread. This was during a massive famine, Soviet authorities sentenced her to ten years in Gulag. When she got out, after Stalin's death, she never saw her children again.
If you told a joke about the Communist Party you could be sentenced up to 25 years in Gulag for simply making a joke, Stalin enforced these rules seriously. Even though he was harsh leader, he changed Russia for the better and through this harsh forced labor, came industrialization.
Prisoners who worked in the Gulag helped the industrialization (above)