In addition Paulus was a live symbol of victory in Stalingrad

They couldn't release him in such an easy way

In one Soviet film Stalin even says 'I won't exchange a private for a Field Marshal.'

lol makes his son a private.

well fuck films, in reality he said

"I do not have a son named Yakov."

And Yakov killed himself.

He didn't refuse or negotiate oof.

@b0b Finish up I want to play some IGRP

You say it like Yakov killed himself because of Stalin's words

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