Why I decided to put this together on Socialism
Is for my viewers to be aware of living conditions under Socialism/communism. Also it’s nice to do a review on Marxism, to refresh your memory.
Bernie Sanders, a Socialist candidate, a Democrat running for the presidency in 2020. There are those who are backing him. I don’t think his babbling is going anywhere with the American voter, as capitalism and the way of life it gives us, definitely doesn’t merit throwing it away for slavery.
I’ve added a lot below on Joseph Stalin, His Socialism and Genocide, to stress the need to defeat Socialism communism. Reading the sub-articles can show how a smart individual can rise to such a high position, and beware of.
Reading the articles should make aware to the viewer the disastrous effect Socialism communism, would have on the United States, a Capitalist nation, where freedom and liberty coexist freedom and liberty don’t exist in a communist country,, slavery does.
Some facts on Stalin are given under the heading, Joseph Stalin, His Socialism and Genocide, for viewers to read and note how different living conditions would be under a dictatorship. My reason is to counter any nonsense Bernie Sanders would say on Socialism.
Originators of Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in their Communist Manifesto (published in 1848)
First here’s a dictionary definition of socialism and communism :
Socialism, Noun:
1. A political theory advocating state ownership of industry
2. An economic system based on state ownership of capital
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Communism, Noun:
1. A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
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Socialism and communism governments are governments with no public control. The former Soviet Union and China, were and now are of those types of governments, dictatorial, one leader. The public has no say so in the governing of the country.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in their Communist Manifesto, wrote exclusively on its great form of government. Unfortunately 100 million people have died under it.
Too main problem with communism are farming and religion. Communist Governments don’t do good running businesses like farming, that’s why so many in the millions died, because of food shortages.
A farm needs to be owned by someone who spends his time managing it properly, so it produces efficiently, and there needs to be enough farms in a country to feed the population. The United States ships so much food overseas its incredible.
On religion Karl Marx wrote: religion is the Opiate of the People.
Noun: opiate
1. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative
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In other words Karl Marx was against religion, indicating communism is too. Russia centuries back started out as tribal, growing into a country, then along came Ivan the terrible, after his cruel regime, unrest, then the tsar dictatorships, the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin invaded Russia In November 7 1917, the advent of communism.
This long history of Russia had no form of Capitalism. The United States emerged from England’s 13 colonies after the revolutionary 8 year war, 1783, but we became a country 4 years later in 1787. England itself was a democratic country, but had kings controlling its nation.
Democratic, Adjective:
1. Characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality
2. Representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
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England’s had its form of Capitalism, our great Constitution so majestically put together embraces Capitalism. Pocahontas is mentioned here to show her visit to England was to illustrate England was a democratic country.
The Virginia Company of London made the decision to bring Pocahontas and Indian, and her husband John Rolfe, to England, as noted, her conversion to Christianity.
The Rolfes, their young son Thomas, Governor Dale, and 12 Powhatans arrived at the port of Plymouth on June 12, 1616. Their journey to London was by coach, and they were accompanied by 11 other Powhatans including a holy man named Tomocomo.
Pocahontas was in Plymouth, and she learned that John Smith was living in London at the time, and Smith was aware of Pocahontas’s presence in Plymouth.
Smith wrote to Queen Anne of Denmark, who was the wife of King James, urging her that Pocahontas be treated with respect as a royal visitor.
He suggested that if she was not treated with respect her “present, here and love to us and Christianity, might turn to scorn and fury”, and England might lose the chance to “rightly have a presence in America by her means”.
Pocahontas was entertained at various social gatherings. An interesting incident occurred when Pocahontas accompanied by Tomocomo were brought before the king at the old Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall, On January 5, 1617.
A performance of Ben Jonson’s Vision of Delight was preformed. According to Smith, King James neutral first impression was so , that neither Pocahontas nor Tomocomo realized whom they had met until it was explained to them afterward.
Pocahontas was not a princess in the culture, of Chief Powhatan but the Virginia Company presented her as one to the English public because she was the daughter of an important chief in America.
Pocahontas and John Rolfe lived in the suburb of Brentford, Middlesex for a while, as well as at Rolfe’s family home at Heacham, Norfolk.
In March 1617, Rolfe and Pocahontas boarded a ship to return to Virginia, but they sailed only as far as Gravesend on the river Thames, when Pocahontas became gravely ill. She was taken ashore and died at the approximate age of 21.
China for thousand of years was run by Emperors, then along came years of tribal control, with [Chiang Kai-shek’s the strongest, then he flees from the mainland to Formosa now Taiwan, 1949, run out by Mao Tse tung, who becomes the communists leader of China, up to 70 million die under his dictatorship.
Our first example of Socialism started with the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving
I borrowed this article from my unpublished book, which I got from a story Rush Limbaugh gives on the first Thanksgiving every year at Thanksgiving time.
In this new settlement Plymouth, 1623, William Bradford was appointed as the first governor. The original plan was to give everyone a plot of land and what ever they produced would go into a store for everyone to select from.
This didn’t work as how farming wasn’t known to some, so it was left to others, many became slackers and the experiment failed.
A forerunner to communes, and a form of collectivism, (Soviet communism), which doesn’t work after time. One of the first known ventures with socialism and identifying it as a fruitless system.
Governor Bradford finally figured out this system wasn’t going to work. All were reassigned a plot of land which they could operate and produce under their own management. Whatever is yielded from this you keep, if there is a surplus you can sell it. That’s when the pilgrims began to prosper.
Capitalism was working hay back then. With this way of being self reliant and providing a prospers settlement they got together and celebrated, praying and eating prepared wild turkeys with what else was available.
Thanksgiving started from this notable historic occasion, and the beginning of one of our famous once a year traditions.
Socialism starts creeping into the United States
Back in the 1930s Socialism started working its way into our great country the United States, some citizen were getting interested, including prominent movie stars.
In the senate, republican Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that communists had infiltrated the U.S, and had a Fervor of exposing anyone promoting it.
He became chair of the Senate’s subcommittee on investigations,this entitled him to set up his investigation committee. McCarthy spent almost five years trying unproductively to expose communists and other left-wing advocates.
Targets included supposed Socialists in Hollywood and the State Department. At the beginning of his second term In 1953, senator, McCarthy was put in charge of the Committee on Government Operations, that allowed him to launch even more expansive investigations of the alleged communist infiltration of the federal government.
In hearing after hearing, he aggressively interrogated witnesses, many came to perceive as a blatant violation of their civil rights.
Despite a lack of any proof of subversion, some 2,000 government employees lost their jobs as a result of McCarthy’s investigations.
The Fall of senator, McCarthy became apparent when he started to attached the armed services, he kept his job but lost his power, and died in 1957 at the age of 48.
Here is a short list of communist groups from my unpublished book:
From: freerepublic.com/focus/news/828445/posts
I’m only listing 7 here to keep the article shorter, but the list is much longer, a page or 2:
- All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
- American Indian Movement – Grand Governing Council (AIM-GGC)
- Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP)
- Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)
- Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA)
- Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
- For a Better World
- Freedom Road Socialist Organization [Fight Back] (FRSO)
To keep the United States as it was founded, freedom and liberty, we must always be vigilant, the Adversary is constantly at work, so often introducing techniques to undermine the Divinely Inspired United States.
Communism is 180 degrees out of phrase with the Constitution, if the United States became a Communist country we would cease to exist as we now live.
The Manhattan Project
I do an overview here of this project to show how the Socialist communist Russia stole secrets to the atomic bomb. This giant project was a plan to developed the atomic bomb, organized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, brought on by Albert Einstein’s theory between mass and energy expressed by the formula, E equals m c squared.
This whole project is to big to cover here, but here’s a little on it. The Manhattan Project was so big its development secret unfortunately couldn’t be keep that well.
Spies were paid big money for good information, communist Joseph Stalin desperately wanted the plans. Two spies put to death for given the info to Russia were: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing, June 19, 1953
The project took place in two places in the US. Oak Ridge Tennessee, and the Hanford Site, Washington state by the Columbia river. There of course there were many smaller sites that were needed.
This vast undertaking finely produced the first atomic bomb. It was tested at White Sands New Mexico. The tower it was on was vaporized, And sand surrounding the detonations for quite a ways was turned to glass.
These first atomic bombs were big and heavy, and called first phrase, with future development they got smaller and compact, soon the Hydrogen bomb was produced, vastly more powerful than the atomic bomb.
Joseph Stalin had spies and payed off people to steal the bombs secrecy for the making of it. Evidently his big and complex country Russia wasn’t able to figure it out.
To get Japan to surrender in World War II two of these first phrase bombs were dropped on two of their cities. Fat Man and Little Boy, are the nicknames given to the first and only two Atomic bombs ever used in combat. Little boy was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
Fat Man was detonated three days later over the city of Nagasaki. These two weapons were pivotal in saving the lives of thousands of Americans, and bringing the Second World War to a victorious end.
Communist Russia becomes the Soviet Union after World War II
As communist Russia went through Europe defeating the Nazis they kept the countries they freed, and became known as the Soviet Union after World War II.
Joseph Stalin for all the United States did for his country in World War II turned against us, and the Cold War started, the Iron curtain was dropped. The Hydrogen bomb race started, as Russia had stolen its secrets from the United States, both countries started producing the hydrogen bomb, thousands on both sides.
Fortunately Joseph Stalin died in 1953, but strong resisted still continued from new leaders. After President Ronald Reagan started Star Wars, the Soviet Union went bankrupt in 1991 under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, becoming just Russia, communism as it was seems to be gone under this new leadership
There many communist groups in the US infiltrating where they can
So many colleges with their 90 percent of liberal professors are infiltrating the minds of our young college students with left wing nonsense, don’t discount socialism.
In July 2019, some 23 democrat candidate running for the presidency in 2020, along with the squad, are bantering socialism around. China is socialist,communism, its citizens don’t enjoy working conditions like they should be entitled too.
Vietnam is socialist,communism, it citizens are poor along with the country.
Sean Hannity went over there to cover a President Trump’s engagement, tipping many with a 20 dollar bill or a hundred was big money. Vietnam gets a lot of help from tourism.
If a dictator gets power and starts to turn a country he’s in into a socialist-communist country, hopefully its citizens throw him out, before they lose control.
The Bolsheviks invade Russia in November 7, 1917
But it much be noted they were getting noted and waiting for an opportune time Under the regime of Tsar Nicholas II to invade Russia. Led by Vladimir Lenin, it became a threat to the world when the Bolsheviks invaded Russia, the first establishment of a communist country.
Bolsheviks pushed for socialist revolution on the streets and where necessary. The Civil War, long and bloody between the Reds, the Bolsheviks, and the Whites, the Russian Provisional Government. The 6 year war ensued and ended with the Bolsheviks victory.
It included foreign intervention, the execution of the former tsar and his family, and the famine of 1921, which killed about five million people.
Vladimir Lenin under his leadership permitted some private enterprise to coexist alongside nationalized industry in the 1920s. Vladimir Lenin with his unsuspected death, died in 1924,.
A power struggle issued after his death between factions, with Joseph Stalin becoming the ruler of Soviet Russia in the late 1920s.
Joseph Stalin, His Socialism and Genocide
The reason I’m going back to Stalin’s area, 1922 to 1953 is Socialism is still prevalent in the United States.
Why anyone with common sense would push for Socialism is a mystery, of course the Adversary is always at work, infiltrating and trying to implicate avert any Divinely inspired establishments.
Stalin under the regime of Tsar Nicholas II
According to the writer Sebag Montefiore. Keenly interested in the arts, Stalin admired artistic talent Vladimir Lenin head of the Bolsheviks died in 1924, then with the faction struggle in time elevated Stalin.
In 1928, Stalin introduced his plan to build Socialism in One Country, it was a 5 year project. In agriculture the state controlled all farms all over the country, famines ensued, causing millions of deaths.
According to declassified Soviet archives detail Stalin’s methods, his Great Purge. The NKVD in 1937 and 1938 arrested more than 1.5 million people. During the 1930s he purged the military.
Hitler invades Russia to expand Germany’s territory. Facts on Stalin are given to counter any of the democrats running as a candidate for the presidency in 2020, or other reasons
Early life, young and adulthood,
Born, 1879 died 1953.
His last name given by his father, Jughashvili, he later changed to Stalin, meaning man of steel. In adulthood, Stalin measured 5 feet 4 inches tall. To appear taller, he wore stacked shoes, and stood on a small platform during parades.
His face was pock-marked from smallpox during childhood, for pictures they were airbrushed from published photographs. He was born with a webbed left foot, and his left arm had been permanently injured in childhood which left it shorter than his right arm, which lacking in flexibility, which was probably the result of being hit, at the age of 12, by a horse-drawn carriage.
For All photographs of him I remember was him wearing a beard. He favored military-style clothing, in particular long black boots, light-colored collarless tunics, and a gun. He was a lifelong smoker, who smoked both a pipe and cigarettes. He had few material demands and lived plainly, with simple and inexpensive clothing and furniture; his interest was in power rather than wealth.
Stalin under the Regime of Tsar Nicholas II. Many times arrested and imprisoned
He continued to evade arrest from the Tsar’s police by using aliases, but was arrested in April 1902. He was Held first in Batumi Prison, then Kutaisi Prison, and then he was sentenced to three years of exile in eastern Siberia in the mid-part of 1903.
Arriving at the small Siberian town of Novaya Uda. There, he lived in a two-room peasant’s house, sleeping in the building’s larder, asmall storeroom.
Two escape attempts were made, on the first he made it to Balagansk, unsuccessful. His second attempt, in January 1904, was successful and he made it to Tiflis.
We find Stalin arrested again In March 1908 and interned in Bailov Prison in Baku. There, he led imprisoned Bolsheviks and organized discussion groups, he also ordered the killing of informants. He was eventually sentenced to two years exile in the village of Solvychegodsk, Vologda Province.
Arriving in Solvychegodsk in February 1909, by June he escaped the village and made it to Kotlas disguised as a woman and from there to Saint Petersburg.
In March 1910, again, he was arrested and sent back to Solvychegodsk. At Solvychegodsk he had affairs with at least two women, one his landlady, Maria Kuzakova, who later gave birth to his second son, Konstantin.
In June 1911, Stalin was permitted to move to Vologda, where he stayed for two months, having another relationship with a woman named Pelageya. Onufrieva. Escaping we find the escape artist Stalin in Saint Petersburg, where he was arrested in September 1911, and sentenced to a further three-year exile in Vologda.
In February 1913, Stalin was arrested while back in Saint Petersburg. They sentenced him to four years exile in Turukhansk, a remote part of Siberia from which escape was particularly difficult.
Arriving in the village of Monastyrskoe In August, after four weeks was relocated to the hamlet of Kostino. In March 1914, concerned over a potential escape attempt, the authorities moved Stalin to the hamlet of Kureika on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
In the small community Stalin had a relationship with a thirteen year old, thus a year under the legal age of consent, Lidia Pereprygia.
Stalin was involved in a Marxist party founded in 1898, which was against Tsar Nicholas II regine
There, he co-edited a Georgian Marxist newspaper, for the Proletariatis Brdzola (“Proletarian Struggle”), with Philip Makharadze.
He called for the Georgian Marxist movement to split off from its Russian counterpart, resulting in several RSDLP members accusing him of holding views contrary to the ethos of Marxist internationalism and calling for his removal from the party.
After that threat he soon recanted his opinions. During his exile, the RSDLP had split between Vladimir Lenin’s “Bolsheviks”, and Julius Martov’s “Mensheviks”.
Stalin detested many of the Mensheviks in Georgia with disapproval, and aligned himself with the Bolsheviks. Although Stalin established a Bolshevik stronghold in the mining town of Chiatura, Bolshevism remained a minority force in the
Menshevik-dominated Georgian revolutionary scene.
Revolution of 1905 and its aftermath: 1905 to 1912
In January 1905, government troops massacred protesters in Saint Petersburg. Unrest soon spread across the Russian Empire in what came to be known as the Revolution of 1905.
Georgia was particularly affected. Stalin was in Baku in February when ethnic violence broke out between Armenians and Azeris; at least 2,000 were killed.
He publicly criticize the “Organized persecution against Jews and Armenians” as being part of Tsar Nicholas II’s attempts to “buttress his despicable throne”.
Stalin formed a Bolshevik Battle Squad in which he used to try to keep the warring ethnic factions apart. He also used the unrest as a cover for stealing printing equipment, during the growing violence throughout Georgia.
He formed further Battle Squads, along with the Mensheviks also doing the same. Stalin’s Squads disarmed local police, troops, and raided government arsenals, raised funds through, (protection rackets), on large local businesses and mines.
They launched attacks on the government’s Cossack troops, and pro-Tsarist Black Hundreds, coordinating some of their operations with the Menshevik militia.
Stalin first met Vladimir Lenin () at a 1905 conference in Tampere, which resulted in Lenin becoming “Stalin’s indispensable mentor”.
Although Stalin held Lenin in deep respect, he was vocal in his disagreement with Lenin’s view, that the Bolsheviks should have candidates for the forthcoming election to the State Duma.
Stalin view on the parliamentary process as a waste of time. In April 1906, Stalin attended the RSDLP Fourth Congress in Stockholm, this was his first trip outside the Russian Empire.
At the conference, the RSDLP, then led by its Menshevik majority, agreed that it would not raise funds using armed robbery. Lenin and Stalin disagreed with this decision, and later privately discussed how they could continue the robberies for the Bolshevik cause.
Editor of Pravda: 1912 to 1917
He wrote many articles, but the paper had to be concealed from the authorities of the Tsars. It is interesting to note that Stalin had the capability of being an editor, which is another part of his talent, but as revealed here his other side was destructive.
According to the writer Sebag Montefiore “it is clear from hostile and friendly witnesses alike that Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood”. Stalin had a complex mind, great self-control, and an excellent memory.
He was a hard worker, and displayed a keen desire to learn; when in owner, he scrutinized many details of Soviet life, from film scripts to architectural plans and military hardware. According to Volkogonov, “Stalin’s private life and working life were one and the same”; he did not take days off from political activities.
Stalin could play different roles to different audiences, and was adept at deception, often deceiving others as to his true motives and aims. Several historians have seen it appropriate to follow Lazar Kaganovich’s description of there being “several Stalins” as a means of understanding his multi-faceted personality.
He was a good organizer, with a strategic mind, and judged others according to their inner strength, practicality, and cleverness. He acknowledged that he could be rude and insulting, although rarely raised his voice in anger; as his health deteriorated in later life he became increasingly unpredictable and bad tempered.
Despite his tough-talking attitude, he could be very charming; when relaxed, he cracked jokes and mimicked others. Montefiore suggested that this charm was “the foundation of Stalin’s power in the Party”.
Stalin was ruthless, temperamentally cruel, and had a propensity for violence high even among the Bolsheviks. He lacked compassion, something Volkogonov suggested might have been accentuated by his many years in prison and exile, although he was capable of acts of kindness to strangers, even amid the Great Terror.
He was capable of self-righteous indignation, and was resentful, vindictive, and vengeful, holding onto grievances against others for many years. By the 1920s, he was also suspicious and conspiratorial, prone to believing that people were plotting against him and that there were vast international conspiracies behind acts of dissent.
He never attended torture sessions or executions, although Service thought Stalin “derived deep satisfaction” from degrading and humiliating people and keeping even close associates in a state of “unrelieved fear”.
Montefiore thought Stalin’s brutality marked him out as a “natural extremist”; Service suggested he had a paranoid or sociopathic personality disorder.
Other historians linked his brutality not to any personality trait, but to his unwavering commitment to the survival of the Soviet Union and the international Marxist Leninist cause.
It is hard for me to reconcile the courtesy and consideration he showed me personally with the ghastly cruelty of his wholesale liquidations. Others, who did not know him personally, see only the tyrant in Stalin.
I saw the other side, as well his high intelligence, that fantastic grasp of detail, his shrewdness and his surprising human sensitivity that he was capable of showing, at least in the war years.
I found him better informed than Roosevelt, more realistic than Churchill, in some ways the most effective of the war leaders… I must confess that for me Stalin remains the most inscrutable and contradictory character I have known and leave the final word to the judgment of history.
Keenly interested in the arts, Stalin admired artistic talent. He protected several Soviet writers, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, even when their work was labelled harmful to his regime.
He enjoyed music, owning around 2,700 albums, and frequently attending the Bolshoi Theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. His taste in music and theatre was conservative, favoring classical drama, opera, and ballet over what he dismissed as experimental “formalism”.
He also favored classical forms in the visual arts, disliking avant-garde, styles, like cubism and futurism. He was a voracious reader, with a library of over 20,000 books. Little of this was fiction, although he could cite passages from Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Walt Whitman by heart.
He favoured historical studies, keeping up with debates in the study of Russian, Mesopotamian, ancient Roman, and Byzantine history. An autodidact, A person who has taught himself.
he claimed to read as many as 500 pages a day, with Montefiore regarding him as an intellectual. Stalin also enjoyed watching films late at night at cinemas installed in the Kremlin and his dachas. He favored the Western genre; his favorite film was the 1938 picture Volga Volga.
Stalin was a keen and accomplished billiards player, and collected watches. He also enjoyed practical jokes; he for instance would place a tomato on the seat of Politburo members and wait for them to sit on it.
When at a social events, he encouraged singing, as well as alcohol consumption; he hoped that others would drunkenly reveal their secrets to him.
As an infant, Stalin displayed a love of flowers, and later in life he became a keen gardener. His Volynskoe suburb had a 20-hectare (50-acre) park, with Stalin devoting much attention to its agricultural activities.
Vladimir Lenin head of the Bolsheviks died in 1924, then with the faction struggle in time elevated Stalin to becoming the undisputed leader of Russia by the end of the 1920s, establishing his totalitarian rule.
When the Bolsheviks invaded Russia in 1917 and pushed for socialist revolution, Stalin was 39, and had been involved in the political arena for some time.
Lenin as had been noted was a little wary of Stalin, but Stalin had been growing in the political umbrella of capable leaders. Lenin before his death had appointed Stalin the head of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate, which gave Stalin considerable power in his climb.
On April 3 1922, Stalin was elevated to the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, and a power struggle issued in the years after his death. His death on how he died was questionable among many.
Initially, Lenin was to be replaced by troika, with Grigory Zinoviev of the Ukrainian SSR, Lev Kamenev of the Russian SFSR, and Joseph Stalin of the Transcaucasian SFSR.
But Stalin gradually consolidated his capable influence, outmaneuvering and isolating his rivals within the party, he became the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union and, by the end of the 1920s, established totalitarian rule.
In a Socialistic communist regime many things can happen that wouldn’t happen here in America, like: In the early days of the Bolsheviks struggle for power, Nikolai Yezhov, was head of the NKVD. Yezhov was executed.
In October 1927, Grigory Zinoviev and Leon Trotsky were expelled from the Central Committee and forced into exile.
Unheard of these things happening in the U.S. evidently was tolerated with the one-party rule of the Communist Party of the government in the Soviet Union.
In 1928, Stalin introduced his plan to build Socialism in One Country, it was a 5 year project. His aim, was to replace the internationalism expressed by Lenin throughout the Bolsheviks Revolution,
Stalin’s socialism was complete government control. All existing enterprises are controlled by the state. The dictatorial state he controlled undertook an intensive program of The development of industry on an extensive scale.
rather than adhering to the policy advocated by Lenin, “lead by example”, forced organization of the nations economy, The efficient use of resources, was on the basis of Soviet communism.
In agriculture the state controlled all farms all over the country, famines ensued, causing millions of deaths. The result of Socialism.
Historians have calculated Deaths during the 1930s were in the range of 10 11 million. Ukraine a country owned by Russia under Stalin’s collectivism, His cruel efforts left an estimated 3.9 million dead.
The Ukrainian famine known as the Holodomor, (a combination of the Ukrainian words for starvation and “to inflict death), estimate claimed the lives of 3.9 million people, about 13 percent of the population.
Unlike other famines in history caused by blight or drought, replacements of Ukraine’s small farms with state-run collectives, and the punishment independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to a dictator to his totalitarian authority, wouldn’t be tolerated.
Surviving kulaks (farms owners) who wouldn’t participates were persecuted and many sent to Gulags (a Russian prison camp, to do forced labor.
Stalin was motivated by the goal of transforming the Ukrainian nation into his idea of a modern, proletarian, socialist nation, even though it entailed the physical destruction of broad sections of its population.
According to declassified Soviet archives detail Stalin’s methods, his Great Purge. Resulted in the execution or detainment of many “Old Bolsheviks” who had participated in the October Revolution with Lenin.
The NKVD in 1937 and 1938 arrested more than 1.5 million people. Of these 681,692 were shot.
That averages to over one thousand executions a day for those 2 years. During the 1930s he purged the military executing its top leaders. He was always paranoid of being overthrown by the military, and had 3 separate police forces for protection against a revolt.
Stalin’s purge of the military was a bit problem shortly after World War II started, when Hitler invaded Moscow and surrounding areas of Russia, the top brass needed in the operations of the military to control and make it efficient, had been purged.
But the Russians vigorously fought, unfortunately Hitler’s military was far superior. [
Relationships and family
Stalin would carry his daughter Svetlana proudly. Friendship in Stalin’s roll as the supreme leader was important to him, and he used it to gain and maintain his power.
Stalin generally gravitated to people like himself, although number one in the country, he came from a humble background, and gave nicknames to his favorite associates.
Stalin was sociable and enjoyed a joke, his friendships “meandered between love, admiration, and venomous jealousy”. While head of the Soviet Union he remained in contact with many of his old friends in Georgia, sending them letters along with gifts of money.
Stalin was attracted to women, he was sexually promiscuous, there are no reports of any homosexual tendencies. although he rarely talked about his life, its noted that he rarely seems to have been without a girlfriend”.
For sex life Stalin’s favored types of women that were “young, buxom women with a body) having pleasing curves, and who would be supportive and unchallenged toward him.
Stalin “regarded women as a resource for sexual gratification and domestic comfort”. The authorities of Tsar Nicholas II In March 1914, concerned over Stalin taking a escape attempt, moved him to the hamlet of Kureika on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
In the hamlet, Stalin had a relationship with a young girl, Lidia Pereprygia, who was thirteen at the time, she was a year under the legal age of consent in Tsarist ruled Russia.
Pereprygia gave birth to Stalin’s child around December 1914, but the infant soon died.
Lidia gave birth to another child produced by Stalin, Alexander, circa, in April 1917. Stalin married twice and had several offspring.
His first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, Stalin married in 1906 at age 27, noted theirs was “a true love match”, she was “probably the one human being he had really loved. When she died Stalin said “she softened my heart of stone. They had a son, Yakov.
Stalin’s second wife was Nadezhda Alliluyeva, their relationship was not an easy one and they often fought. They had two children, a daughter, Svetlana, and a son, Vasily. They adopted another son, Artyom Sergeev, in 1921.
During his marriage to Nadezhda, Stalin had affairs with many other women, and wives of whom Most were fellow revolutionaries. Nadezdha suspected that this was the case, and committed suicide in 1932.
Stalin regarded Vasily as spoiled and often chastised his behaviour. But as Stalin’s son, Vasily was swiftly promoted through the ranks of the Red Army and allowed a lavish lifestyle.
Conversely, Stalin had an affectionate relationship with Svetlana during her childhood, and was also very fond of Artyom. In later life, he disapproved of Svetlana’s various suitors and husbands, putting a strain on his relationship with her.
After the Second World War he took little time for his children, and his family played a decreasingly role of importance in his life. After Stalin’s death, Svetlana changed her surname from Stalin to Allilueva, and defected to the U.S. to live a new life there, in a different location.
After Nadezdha’s death, Stalin became increasingly close to his sister-in-law Zhenya Alliluyeva, according to Sebag Montefiore a biographer of Stalin, they were probably lovers. Also there are unproven rumours that from 1934 onward he had a relationship with his housekeeper Valentina Istomina.
Stalin had at least two illegitimate children from his past escapades, although they were never recognized as being his. One of them, Konstantin Kuzakov, later taught philosophy at the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute, but never met his father Stalin.
The other, the son of Lidia Pereprygia, Alexander, was raised as the son of a peasant fisherman and the Soviet. Authorities made him swear never to reveal that Stalin was his biological father.
Sebag Montefiore, a biographer of Stalin, concluded the information reveals that Stalin was a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity.
Hitler invades Russia to expand Germany’s territory
His army captures settlement along the way to Moscow, fighting is severe, deaths, destruction occurs.
Hitler’s army is stalled when a severe winter sets in, of which Hitler’s military wasn’t equipped for the brutal cold and had to retreat.
This was an unusual cold winter, tanks froze up, soldiers didn’t have the proper closing, the fighting came to a standstill. In the long way back to Germany his military suffered much in soldier’s dead and equipment.
Also Hitler made the futile mistake of starting a war with Russia. Now he had to fight two armies on different fronts, United Sates and its allies and Russia.
The Russian’s new how to cope with severe cold, but for a safe region, Stalin set up manufacturing companies over the Ural mountains where Hitler couldn’t invade.
Stalin set up manufacturing companies for war goods and other needed items in that region of Russia, and became very strong, enabling it to constantly defeat Hitler’s army on its front.
Hitler thought he would eliminate Stalin, but what he got engaged in was a war on 2 fronts with, the United States, its allies, and Russia.
Facts on Stalin are given to counter any of the democrats running as a candidate for the presidency in 2020, or other reasons. Other reasons could be for a review on this megalomaniac dictator Joseph Stalin.
Gulag
Gulag were names given to Russian prisons, and they liked to locate them in Siberia. A Russian prison camp, a Gulag could be for political prisoners or the every day criminal.
Siberia is a part of Russia located up in the frozen north. There are towns up there occupied by people that live in that cold climate. I don’t know a lot about Siberia, whether in the spring there are farm lands, but there are towns with citizens.
When Joseph Stalin controlled Russia, he sent people that talked against him to the gulag. Local citizens could hear gun shots day and night, that lived close a gulags, the gun shots meant some was being shot in that political prison.
I’ve always wondered what they did with all those dead bodies. Yes gulags killed people in the thousands. The dictator Joseph Stalin could get away with murder, as to what he said or wanted happened.
In the United States capital punishment is carried out by a court system, the prisoner is indicted, a lawyer is provided, a jury is selected, and the court convenes. The state prosecutor and the prisoners lawyer hammer it out before the jury and judge, with the evidence submitted.
When that is done the jury will have to come to a verdict. Gulags were a product of the mad and cruel dictator Joseph Stalin, they could be and were a place of death.
It’s estimated the mad dictator Joseph Stalin cause the deaths of up to 30 million deaths through his brand of Socialism.
Lavrentiy Beria Possible Leader of Russia, purged after Stalin’s death
From: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria
Some comments before Lavrentiy Beria’s biography
The text has been edited, but not changed, the life of Lavrentiy Beria is well covered. Fortunately after Stalin’s death his attempts of controlling the Soviet Union was eliminated.
Encouragingly the Genocide induced by Stalin and Beria didn’t occur with the power in the Soviet Union by the following leaders.
- Khrushchev era
- Brezhnev era
- Yuri Andropov was 68 when he assumed power. Konstantin Chernenko was 72 when he assumed power; both died in less than two years.
In an attempt to avoid a third short-lived leader, in 1985, the Soviets turned to the next generation and selected Mikhail Gorbachev.
Gorbachev era
Here in 2019 Russia is run by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, they’re not a communists country anymore, but use their influence as a problem to the United States.
Rise to Power
Lavrentiy Beria grew up in a Georgian Orthodox family, it’s hard to imagine a person like Beria born into a modest family becoming a tyrant like: Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Saddam Hussein.
But they’re in every decade, waiting for their opportunity. Stalin said of Beria, Beria is my Heinrich Himmler of Germany. Beria attended a technical school in Sukhumi, and joined the Bolsheviks in March 1917 while a student in the Baku Polytechnicum (subsequently known as the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy).
As a student, accounts vary), weather 1920 or 1921, Beria joined the, Cheka – the original Bolshevik secret police. By 1922, Beria was deputy head of the Georgian branch of Cheka’s successor,the OGPU.
In 1924 he led the repression of a Georgian nationalist uprising, after which up to 10,000 people were executed. For this display of “Bolshevik ruthlessness,” Beria was appointed head of the “secret-political division” of the Transcaucasian OGPU and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
In 1926 Beria became head of the Georgian OGPU, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, head of the Transcaucasian party, introduced him to fellow-Georgian Joseph Stalin. As a result, Beria became an ally in Stalin’s rise to power.
During his years at the helm of the Georgian OGPU, Beria effectively destroyed the intelligence networks that Turkey and Iran had developed in the Soviet Caucasus, while successfully penetrating the governments of these countries with his agents.
He also took over Stalin’s holiday security. Nestor Lakoba, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrenti Beria and Aghasi Khanjian during the opening of the Moscow Metro in 1936. The same year Lakoba and Khanjian were killed by Beria.
In August 1938, Stalin brought Beria to Moscow as deputy head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the ministry which oversaw the state security and police forces.
Under Nikolai Yezhov, the NKVD carried out the Great Purge: the imprisonment or execution of millions of people throughout the Soviet Union as alleged “enemies of the people.”
By 1938, however, the oppression had become so extensive that it was damaging the infrastructure, economy and even the armed forces of the Soviet state, prompting Stalin to wind the purge down.
Stalin had thoughts to appoint Lazar Kaganovich as head of the NKVD, but chose Beria probably because he was a professional secret policeman.
In September, Beria was appointed head of the Main Administration of State Security (GUGB) of the NKVD, and in November he succeeded Yezhov as NKVD head, (Yezhov was executed in 1940).
The NKVD was purged next, with half its personnel replaced by Beria loyalists, many of them from the Caucasus. Although Beria’s name is closely identified with the Great Purge because of his activities while deputy head of the NKVD.
his leadership of the organization marked an easing of the repression begun under Yezhov. Over 100,000 people were released from the labor camps. The government officially admitted that there had been some injustice and “excesses” during the purges, which were blamed entirely on Yezhov.
The liberalization was only relative: arrests and executions continued, and in 1940, as war approached, the pace of the purges again accelerated.
During this period, Beria supervised deportations of people identified as political enemies from Poland and the Baltic states after Soviet occupation of those regions.
In March 1939, Beria became a candidate member of the Communist Party’s Politburo. Although he did not become a full member until 1946, he was already one of the senior leaders of the Soviet state. In 1941 Beria was made a Commissar General of State Security, the highest quasi-military rank within the Soviet police system of that time, effectively comparable to a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
On March 5 1940, after the Gestapo NKVD Third Conference was held in Zakopane, Beria sent a note to Stalin in which he stated that the Polish prisoners of war kept at camps and prisons in western Belarus and Ukraine were enemies of the Soviet Union, and recommended their execution.
Most of them were military officers, but there were also intelligentsia, doctors, and priests and others for a total of over 22,000. With Stalin’s approval, Beria’s NKVD executed them in what became known as the Katyn massacre.
From October 1940 to February 1942, the NKVD under Beria carried out a new purge of the Red Army and related industries.
In July 1945, as Soviet police ranks were converted to a military uniform system, Beria’s rank was officially converted to that of Marshal of the Soviet Union. Although he had never held a traditional military command, Beria made a significant contribution to the victory of the Soviet Union in World War II through his organization of wartime production and his use of partisans.
Stalin personally never thought much of it, and neither commented publicly on his performance nor awarded him recognition (i.e. Order of Victory) as he did for most other Soviet Marshals.
Stalin’s Death
Stalin didn’t show up for work in the morning as he should have, 1953.
As some hours went by Khrushchev and Bulganin called evidently Beria, and Beria and Malenkov were the first members of the Politburo to investigate Stalin’s condition.
The latter did not want to risk Stalin’s wrath by checking. They arrived at Stalin’s dacha (Russian country house) at 3am on March 2. Stalin’s aide Vasili Lozgachev reported that Beria and Malenkov were the first members of the Politburo to investigate Stalin’s condition.
Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs what Beria was doing in Stalin’s bedroom. Beria decided to go into his bedroom and check on him.
Beria noticing Stalin was having big problems laying in his bed. When Stalin didn’t seem like he was going to recover, Beria, was spewing hatred, against him and mocking him.”
When Stalin showed signs of consciousness, Beria dropped to his knees and kissed his hand. When Stalin fell unconscious again, Beria immediately stood and spat.
Lozgachev tried in futility to explain to Beria that the then-unconscious Stalin (still in his soiled clothing) was “sick and needed medical attention.”
Beria angrily dismissed his claims, as panic-mongering and quickly left, ordering him, “Don’t bother us, don’t cause a panic, and don’t disturb Comrade Stalin!”
Calling a doctor was deferred for a full 12 hours after Stalin was rendered paralyzed, incontinent, and unable to speak.
This decision is noted as “extraordinary” by Sebag Montefiore, but also consistent with the standard Stalinist policy of deferring all decision-making (no matter how necessary or obvious) without official orders from higher authority.
Beria’s decision to avoid immediately calling a doctor was silently supported (or at least not opposed) by the rest of the Politburo, which was rudderless without Stalin’s micromanagement and paralyzed by a legitimate fear he would suddenly recover and wreak violent reprisal on anyone who had dared to act without his orders.
Stalin’s suspicion of doctors in the wake of the Doctors’ Plot was well known. At the time of his stroke, his private physician was already being tortured in the basement of the Lubyanka for suggesting the leader required more bed rest.
After Stalin’s stroke, Beria claimed to have killed him. This aborted a final purge of Old Bolsheviks Anastas Mikoyan and Vyacheslav Molotov for which Stalin had been laying the groundwork in the year prior to his death.
Shortly after Stalin’s death, Beria announced triumphantly to the Politburo that he had “done in” and “saved all”, according to Molotov’s memoirs.
Notably, Beria never explicitly stated whether he had initiated Stalin’s stroke or had merely delayed his treatment in the hope he would die ( as argued by Sebag Montefiore and consistent with evidence).
Support for the assertion that Stalin was poisoned with warfarin by Beria’s associates has been presented from several sources, including Edvard Radzinsky in his biography Stalin and a recent study by Miguel A. Faria in the journal Surgical Neurology International.
Warfarin (4-Hydroxycoumarins) is cited as the likely agent; it would have produced the symptoms reported, and administering it into Stalin’s food or drink was well within the operational abilities of Beria’s NKVD head.
Sebag Montefiore does not dispute the possibility of an assassination by poison masterminded by Beria, whose hatred for Stalin was palpable by this point, but also notes that Beria never made mention of poison or confessed to using it, even during his later interrogations, and was never alone with Stalin during the period prior to his stroke (he always went with Malenkov to defer suspicion).
After Stalin’s death from pulmonary edema brought on by the stroke, Beria’s ambitions sprang into full force. In the uneasy silence following the cessation of Stalin’s last agonies, Beria was the first to dart forward to kiss his lifeless form, (a move likened by Sebag Montefiore to “wrenching, a dead King’s ring off his finger”).
While the rest of Stalin’s inner circle (even Molotov, saved from certain liquidation) stood sobbing unashamedly over the body, Beria reportedly appeared “radiant”, “regenerated”, and “glistening with ill-concealed relish.”
When Beria left the room, he broke the somber atmosphere by shouting loudly for his driver, his voice echoing with what Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva called “the ring of triumph unconcealed.”
Alliluyeva noticed how the Politburo seemed openly frightened of Beria and unnerved by his bold display of ambition. “He’s off to take power,” Mikoyan recalled muttering to Khrushchev.
That prompted a “frantic” dash for their own limousines to intercept him at the Kremlin.
Death, funeral and aftermath, another version: 1953
I put this here as Stalin’s daughter Svetlana may of wanted the end of her father death more dignified, without the possibility of murder.
On March 1 1953, Stalin’s staff found him semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Volynskoe dacha. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He was moved onto a couch and remained there for three days. He was hand-fed using a spoon, given various medicines and injections.
His daughter Svetlana was called to his quarters on March 2 to witness his condition. According to her , it had been “a difficult and terrible death”. An autopsy revealed that he had died of a cerebral hemorrhage and that he also suffered from severe damage to his cerebral arteries due to atherosclerosis.
It is possible that Stalin was murdered. Beria has been suspected of murder, although no firm evidence has ever appeared, other than he admitted it.
Stalin’s death, possibly caused by Lavrentiy Beria
Warfarin 4-Hydroxycoumarins probably was inserted into his food. Shortly after Stalin’s death, Beria announced triumphantly to the Politburo that he had “done in” and “saved all”, according to Molotov’s memoirs.
Notably, Beria never explicitly stated whether he had initiated Stalin’s stroke or had merely delayed his treatment in the hope he would die ( as argued by Sebag Montefiore and consistent with evidence).
After Stalin’s stroke, Beria claimed to have killed him. This aborted a final purge of Old Bolsheviks, Anastas Mikoyan, and Vyacheslav Molotov, for which Stalin had been laying the groundwork in the year prior to his death.
Shortly after Stalin’s death, Beria announced triumphantly to the Politburo that he had “done in” and “saved all”, according to Molotov’s memoirs.
Notably, Beria never explicitly stated whether he had initiated Stalin’s stroke or had merely delayed his treatment in the hope he would die (as argued by Sebag Montefiore and consistent with evidence).
Support for the assertion that Stalin was poisoned with warfarin by Beria’s associates has been presented from several sources, including Edvard Radzinsky in his biography Stalin and a recent study by Miguel A. Faria in the journal Surgical Neurology International.
Warfarin (4-Hydroxycoumarins) is cited as the likely agent; it would have produced the symptoms reported, and administering it into Stalin’s food or drink was well within the operational abilities of Beria’s head of the NKVD,.
Sebag Montefiore does not dispute the possibility of an assassination by poison masterminded by Beria, whose hatred for Stalin was palpable by this point, but also notes that Beria never made mention of poison or confessed to using it, even during his later interrogations, and was never alone with Stalin during the period prior to his stroke (he always went with Malenkov to defer suspicion).
Lavrentiy Beria [was Head of the NKVD as noted.
Downfall
After Stalin’s death, Beria was appointed First Deputy Premier, and reappointed head of the MVD, which he merged with the MGB. His close ally, Malenkov was the new Prime Minister and initially the most powerful man in the post-Stalin leadership.
Beria was second most powerful, and given Malenkov’s personal weakness, was poised to become the power behind the throne and ultimately leader himself.
Khrushchev became Party Secretary. Voroshilov became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (i.e., the head of state).
Given his record, it is not surprising that the other Party leaders were suspicious of Beria’s motives. Khrushchev opposed the alliance between Beria and Malenkov, but he was initially unable to challenge them.
His opportunity came in June 1953 when a spontaneous uprising against the East German Communist regime broke out in East Berlin. Based on Beria’s own statements, other leaders suspected that in the wake of the uprising, he might be willing to trade the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War for massive aid from the United States, as had been received in World War II.
The cost of the war still weighed heavily on the Soviet economy. Beria craved the vast financial resources that another (more sustained) relationship with the United States could provide.
For example, Beria gave Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania serious prospects of national autonomy, possibly similarly to other Soviet satellite states in Europe.
The East German uprising convinced Molotov, Malenkov, and Nikolai Bulganin that Beria’s policies were dangerous and destabilizing to Soviet power.
Within days of the events in Germany, Khrushchev persuaded the other leaders to support a Party coup against Beria. Beria’s principal ally Malenkov abandoned him.
Arrest, trial and execution
On 26 June 1953, Beria was arrested and held in an undisclosed location near Moscow. Accounts of Beria’s fall vary considerably. By the most likely account, Khrushchev prepared an elaborate ambush, convening a meeting of the Presidium on 26 June, where he suddenly launched a scathing attack on Beria, accusing him of being a traitor and spy in the pay of British intelligence.
Beria was taken completely by surprise. He asked, “What’s going on, Nikita Sergeyevich? Why are you picking fleas in my trousers?”
Molotov and others quickly spoke against Beria one after the other, followed by a motion by Khrushchev for his instant dismissal. When Beria finally realized what was happening and plaintively appealed to Malenkov to speak for him, his old friend and crony silently hung his head and refused to meet his gaze.
Malenkov pressed a button on his desk as the pre-arranged signal to Marshal Georgy Zhukov and a group of armed officers in a nearby room. They burst in and arrested Beria.
Beria was taken first to the Moscow guardhouse and then to the bunker of the headquarters of Moscow Military District. Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin ordered the Kantemirovskaya Tank Division and Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division to move into Moscow to prevent security forces loyal to Beria from rescuing him.
Many of Beria’s subordinates, proteges and associates were also arrested, among them Vsevolod Merkulov, Bogdan Kobulov, Sergey Goglidze, Vladimir Dekanozov, Pavel Meshik, and Lev Vlodzimirskiy.
Pravda did not announce Beria’s arrest until 10 July, crediting it to Malenkov and referring to Beria’s “criminal activities against the Party and the State.”
Beria and the others were tried by a special session (“Spetsialnoye Sudebnoye Prisutstvie”) of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 23 December 1953 with no defense counsel and no right of appeal.
Marshal Ivan Konev was the chairman of the court.
Beria was found guilty of:
1. Treason. It was alleged, without any proof, that “up to the moment of his arrest Beria maintained and developed his secret connections with foreign intelligence services”.
In particular, attempts to initiate peace talks with Hitler in 1941 through the ambassador of Bulgaria were classified as treason. No one mentioned that Beria was acting on the orders of Stalin and Molotov.
It was also alleged that Beria, who in 1942 helped organize the defense of the North Caucasus, tried to let the Germans occupy the Caucasus.
There were allegations that “planning to seize power, Beria tried to obtain the support of imperialist states at the price of violation of territorial integrity of the Soviet Union and transfer of parts of USSR’s territory to capitalist states.”
These allegations were due to Beria’s suggestion to his assistants that to improve foreign relations it was reasonable to transfer the Kaliningrad Oblast to Germany, part of Karelia to Finland, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to Romania and the Kuril Islands to Japan.
2. Terrorism. Beria’s participation in the Purge of the Red Army in 1941 was classified as an act of terrorism.
3. Counter-revolutionary activity during the Russian Civil War. In 1919 Beria worked in the security service of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. Beria maintained that he was assigned to that work by the Hummet party, which subsequently merged with the Adalat Party, the Ahrar Party, and the Baku Bolsheviks to establish the Azerbaijan Communist Party.
Beria and all the other defendants were sentenced to death on 23 December 1953. When the death sentence was passed, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail.
The other six defendants were executed by firing squad on the same day the trial ended. Beria was executed separately.
He was shot through the forehead by General Pavel Batitsky who had to stuff a rag into Beria’s mouth to silence his bawling.
His final moments bore great similarity to those of his own predecessor, NKVD Chief Nikolai Yezhov, who begged for his life before his execution in 1940).
The body of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was subsequently cremated. The remains were buried in a forest near Moscow. With has been displayed here on Beria, it’s blatant, his dis concern of human life is obvious, and his end comes shortly after Stalin’s death.
Sexual predator
At Beria’s trial in 1953, it became known that he was the subject of a significant number of rape and sexual assault allegations. But subsequent research – using available historical accounts – could not conclusively prove the veracity of the stories beyond the fact Beria had a notorious reputation that “almost certainly had some foundation.”
The charges of sexual abuse and rape were always disputed by people close to him, including his wife Nina, son Sergo, and Pavel Sudoplatov, the former chief of Soviet foreign intelligence.
Sudoplatov said Beria worked extremely long hours and had “exceptional self-control.” In a 1990 interview, Beria’s wife Nina said: “Lavrentiy was busy working day and night. When did he have time for love with this legion of women?”
However, in 2003 his cases files in the Soviet archives were opened. They recorded he had committed “dozens” of sexual assaults during the years he was NKVD chief.
Sebag Montefiore, a biographer of Stalin, concluded the information “reveals a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity.”
The records contained the official testimony from Colonel R.S. Sarkisov and Colonel V. Nadaraia, two of Beria’s most senior NKVD bodyguards.
They stated that on warm nights during the war years, Beria was often driven slowly through the streets of Moscow in his armored Packard limousine. He would point out young women to be detained and escorted to his mansion where wine and a feast awaited them.
After dining, Beria would take the women into his soundproofed office and rape them. Beria’s bodyguards reported that their orders included handing each victim a flower bouquet as she left Beria’s house.
The implication being that to accept made it consensual; refusal would mean arrest. In one incident his chief bodyguard, Sarkisov, reported that a woman who had been brought to Beria rejected his advances and ran out
of his office; Sarkisov mistakenly handed her the flowers anyway prompting the enraged Beria to declare “Now it’s not a bouquet, it’s a wreath! May it rot on your grave!”
The woman was arrested by the NKVD the next day. Women also submitted to Beria’s sexual advances in exchange for the promise of freeing their relatives from the Gulag.
In one case, Beria picked up Tatiana Okunevskaya – a well-known Soviet actress – under the pretence of bringing her to perform for the Politburo. Instead he took her to his dacha where he offered to free her father and grandmother from NKVD prison if she submitted.
He then raped her telling her “scream or not, it doesn’t matter.” Yet Beria already knew her relatives had been executed months earlier. Okunevskaya was arrested shortly afterwards and sentenced to solitary confinement in the Gulag from which she survived.
Beria’s sexually predatory nature was well-known to the Politburo, and though Stalin took an indulgent viewpoint (considering Beria’s wartime importance), he said, “I don’t trust Beria.”
In one instance when Stalin learned his daughter was alone with Beria at his house, he telephoned her and told her to leave immediately.
When Beria complimented Alexander Poskrebyshev’s daughter on her beauty, Poskrebyshev quickly pulled her aside and instructed her, “Don’t ever accept a lift from Beria.”
After taking an interest in Marshal Kliment Voroshilov’s daughter-in-law during a party at their summer dacha, Beria shadowed their car closely all the way back to the Kremlin terrifying Voroshilov’s wife.
Prior to and during the war, Beria directed Sarkisov to keep a running list of the names and phone numbers of his sexual encounters. Eventually he ordered Sarkisov to destroy the list because it was a security risk, but the colonel retained a secret handwritten copy.
When Beria’s fall from power began, Sarkisov passed the list to Viktor Abakumov, the former wartime head of SMERSH. He was now chief of the MGB – the successor to the NKVD – who was already aggressively building a case against Beria.
Stalin, who was also seeking to undermine Beria, was thrilled by the detailed records kept by Sarkisov, demanding: “Send me everything this asshole writes down!”
Sarkisov reported that Beria’s sexual appetite had led to him contracting syphilis during the war for which he was secretly treated without the knowledge of Stalin or the Politburo (a fact Beria later admitted during his interrogation).
Although the Russian government acknowledged Sarkisov’s handwritten list of Beria’s victims on 17 January 2003, the victims’ names will not be released until 2028.
Evidence suggests that Beria not only abducted and raped women but some were also murdered. His villa in Moscow is now the Tunisian Embassy.
In the mid 1990s, routine work in the grounds turned up the bone remains of several young girls buried in the gardens. According to Martin Sixsmith, in a BBC documentary, “Beria spent his nights having teenagers abducted from the streets and brought here for him to rape.
Those who resisted were strangled and buried in his wife’s rose garden.” Sarkisov and Nadaria’s testimony has been partially corroborated by Edward Ellis Smith, an American who served in the U.S. embassy in Moscow after the war.
According to what Edward Ellis Smith, noted, “Beria’s escapades were common knowledge among embassy personnel because his house was on the same street as residence for Americans, and those who lived there saw girls brought to Beria’s house late at night in a limousine.”