Why where the things Joesph Stailn did so drastic?

Question

I need to know about the crazyness of his crimes

Answer 1

His father was abusive I believe. Start there. Childhood is always fertile ground for analysis.

Answer 2

Stalin was emotionally unbalanced. His father beat him severly when he was a child and he developed an inferiority complex. He then trained for priesthood (of all things) but had to stop as he became violent. His wife killed herself, and he was paranoid about his political enemies plotting to kill him (which they often were). He was socially inept; he flirted with women by throwing bread rolls at them. However, in a twist of fate, he was also a loving father to his daughter, Svetlana, though he virtually abandoned his Son, Vasily.

In terms of crimes, Stalin was really far worse than Hitler. True, Hitler ordered the death of millions of Jews, but he left the personal details (ie the camp system) up to others and tried to distance himself from the killing. Stalin delighted in the killing of his enemies, and in one night he is allegedly said to have personally signed 5000 death warrants before retiring to the cinema, only to come back and sign more. In Nazi Germany, people were scared of the Gestapo (secret police) if they were Jewish or had actually committed a crime; in Stalinist Russia, the entire population was terrified of the state and each other.

An excellent book to read is Simon Sebac Montifiorte's "Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar".

Answer 3

Not that i am a Nazi or anything but remember that Stalin killed far more of his own people than Hilter did even if you include the Final Solution murders.According to history he used to write "not enough" in the margins of notes and documents detailing the numbers of enemies of the state to be killed.Also he had nearly all his family either sent to prison or killed,also had Lenins wife killed ,wouldn't want him as a close family member would you ?After his stroke that killed him it was discovered that he was mentally ill and a paranoid schizophrenic

Answer 4

The Bolsheviks (Communists) believed in the generous application of terror to eliminate political opponents of every description. Additionally, whole classes of people were declared enemies of the state: Kulaks (well-off farmers), the nobility, the middle-class, priests, intellectuals just about anyone that did not subscribe to communist dogma and it ended up including even members of the Bolshevik party that did not subscribe to Lenin's and later Stalin's brand of socialism.
Stalin fashioned himself a great problem solver. In his words "death solves all problems. No man, no problem."

Answer 5

He was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people by murder starvation torture and by freezing to death. He murdered everyone who opposed him, his staff were terrified of him, incase they upset him and found themselves in a death cell. His skills in running Russia were worse than zero, he wasted money on his "four year plan "schemes. The crops failed year after year, the people starved, whist Stalin built up a mighty army and arsenal of weapons and machinery that the country could not afford, the people watched this and starved to death.

Answer 6

well for instance after the russian revolution he was afraid that the officers in the army might not be loyal so he had them all killed not a couple *all* of them they had no senior officers for a while at the begining of world war 2 apart from the communist party representatives afak

Answer 7

Stalin killed many people with his secret police or by sending them to the work farms in Siberia.

Answer 8

He purged millions of his own people. Often knew what they had done he only killed them to create fear. He becam paranoid that people were turning against him. He purged his own doctor so that Stalin died as he couldn't treat him. How crazy is that for starters?

Answer 9

It can be summed up in a phrase;

" Better you than me. " These people weren't what you'd call P.T.A. types.