It's unclear if he was taken prisoner at all

Some say he was killed in action

And there is also evidence that he was shot by German guards for disobeying their orders

what the fuck

does yakovs death

have to do with

James_Solence - Today at 12:51 PM
Communism doesn't work, change my mind.

anyways i gtg for now i'll be back later pls gather some facts

I'll just leave them here, OK?

ok

You can read them later

Robert Davies and Stefen Wheatcroft published a monograph in 2004, in which they enumerate 35 party-government resolutions regarding giving food-aid to the starving regions of the USSR. The first one is dated February 7 and the last one July 20, 1933. Total aid was 320 thousand tonnes of grain of which 264.7 thousand tonnes were directed to Ukrainian SSR and to Kuban, and 55.3 thousand tonnes to all other regions together.

Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union tended to occur fairly regularly, with famine occurring every 10–13 years and droughts every five to seven years. The last ones were in 1932-1933 and 1946-1947. Obviously collectivization was what put that tendency to an end (with an exception of 1946 famine, which happened due to war destruction)

After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800,000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390,000 deaths during kulak forced resettlement – for a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.

By the request of N.S. Khruschev in February 1954 a report about the number of repressed people was prepared and signed by General Prosecutor (Attorney General) of the USSR R. Rudenko, Interior Minister of the USSR S. Kruglov, Justice Minister of the USSR K. Gorshenin. The report listed the total number of people prosecuted for counter-revolutionary crimes during the period from 1921 to February 1, 1954. During that period the Collegia of OGPU, NKVD Troikas, Special Council of the NKVD, Courts and Military Courts indicted 3,777,380 individuals, including 642,980 who received the death penalty, 2,369,220 with sentences of up to 25 years, and 765,180 exiled or deported.

Stalin and the Politburo were lowering the numbers of people for repression. This is a note from Khrushchev to Stalin:
"Dear losif Vissarionovich! The Ukraine sends [requests for ] 17,000 - 18,000 [persons to be] repressed every month. And Moscow confirms no more than 2,000-3,000. I request that you take prompt measures. Your devoted N. Khrushchev."

ok so

to put it short

you agree that communism sucks cock

I just was to give the explanation of such huge numbers

@Deleted User are you from canada

but that isn't even fucking communism...

we're talking about the abuse of fucking prisoners by stalin

@Deleted User oH i WoNdEr HoW yOu GuEsSeD

Sorry

i recognized the guy in your picture

yes he is adolf hitler

haha jk its adrien arcand

he looks a bit jewish

:^ (

and its funny when people say

my profile picture is a jew

and i tell them he is a anti-semite fascism

if both of us got our goals tomorrow i have a feeling there would be a war between our two countries

or at least alot of canadians moving to america and alot of americans moving to canada

A.S. lakovlev, the famous aircraft designer, wrote in his memoirs that Stalin had told him Ezhov had been executed because he had "killed many innocent people".

The interrogations of both Ezhov and Frinovskii published in early 2006 fully confirn Ezhov's deliberate torturing and killing of a great many innocent people. He organized these massive atrocities to cover up his own involvement in the Rightist conspiracy and with German military espionage, as well as in a conspiracy to assassinate Stalin or another Politburo member, and to seize power by coup d'etat.

"Stalinist 'Shooting' Lists" were not lists of persons "to be shot" at all. The lists give the sentences that the prosecution would seek if the individual was convicted - that is, the sentence the prosecution would ask the court to apply. In reality these were lists sent to Stalin (and other Politburo or Secretariat members) for "review" ­
(rassmotrenie) - a word that is used many times in the introduction to the lists.

uh

@Deleted User If that happens

Once Beria took over the NKVD, the "astonishing liberalism" that was instituted immediately. Torture ended, and inmates received privileges again. Ezhov's men were removed from office, many of them tried and convicted of rcpressions. Arrests dropped hugely, by over 90%, in 1939 and 1940 in comparison to 1937 and 1 938. Executions in 1939 and 1940 dropped to far less than 1% of the levels of mass executions in 1937 and 1938. Beria took over as head of the N KVD in December, 1938, so this corresponds precisely with Beria's period in command.
It was during the Beria years that trials and executions of men convicted of illegal repressions, mass killings, torture, and falsifications took place. Many - certainly more than 100,000 - persons wrongly repressed were
released from GULAG camps and prisons.