was Stalin bad?

Question

hehe just wondering...
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Answer 1

Is the Pope Catholic?

Stalin's paranoia led to the death of between 20 and 50 million people, although official government archives only show that 800,000 were executed, 1.7 million died of deprivation in the Gulag, and 389,000 perished during Kulaks' resettlement.

------Stalin's brutual treatment of Kulak farmers who resisted collectivization as well as the government's confiscation of grain led to a famine between 1932 and 34 that killed between five and 10 million.

------The Soviets under Stalin persecuted the Russian Orthodox Church into near extinction, slaughtering 100,000 nuns, priests, and monks during the purges of 1937-38. Government purges extended to also include Uniats, Baptists, Islams, Buddhists, Jews.

-----Stalin was responsible for the Ukrainian Genocide (Holodomor) during the late 1930s.

------He ordered the Deportation to Siberia of 20 ethnic groups (33 million), including Ukrainians, Poles, Koreans, Volga Germans, Crimean Tartars, Kalmyk, Chechens, . . . Jews.

-----He sentenced to death or to the Gulag for 25 years returning Soviet POWs.

------His secret police assassinated anyone they suspected of Anti-Soviet activities, including Leon Trotsky in Mexico City.

Then again, Stalin was an equal-opportunity hater. Some people in the former Soviet Union probably even yearn to return to the "good ol' days".

Answer 2

OK - maybe you already know that Stalin was the worst mass murderer of all time, so maybe you're wondering if, by killing all those people, was he somehow able to help more people than he hurt?

If that's what you're wondering, the answer is a resounding NO! Stalin killed people (in part) to keep his communist government in power, presumably to build a better world for the worker masses.

The result: his communist policies actually left people worse-off economically. The USSR did not move up in the rankings of the world economies. The upshot is that he killed all those people for a system that didn't work.

Of course, he also killed a lot of people because he was a paranoid egomaniac, but that's a different story.

Answer 3

Stalin... I assume that you are referring to Josef Stalin, Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from 1922 to 1953... Yes, he was very bad! A terrible man that ordered the deaths of millions of his own people. In the 1930s Stalin initiated the 'Great Purge', a campaign of political repression, persecution and executions that reached its peak in 1937. Anything good that he might have done is over shadowed by the atrocities that he committed. He should and will forever be remembered as one of the worlds worst villains.

Answer 4

Who cares if she is 15! I am 11! And yes Stalin was bad. He was a communist leader and he killed a lot of people! Hitler killed a lot of Jews for no reason too! He lead the nation through World War II and setting the tone for early stages of the Cold War. He ruled the USSR from 1929 to 1953. (u n d e r g r o u n d s e c u r i t y s y s t e m s r e s e a r c h). Basiclly, he was horrible.

Answer 5

I heard he was the kind of man only a mother could love. :-)

In the 1930s Stalin initiated the Great Purge, a campaign of political repression, persecution and executions that reached its peak in 1937.

Answer 6

He was bad. He was also our ally in WWII. In 1933 he and his Jewish henchman Lazar Kagonovich murdered 7 million Ukrainians by mass starvation. Kaganovich carried out the program (known to to history as the Holodomar) making him the worst mass-murder ever.

Answer 7

I think he was worse than Hitler and that's bad. He was responsible for almost wiping out the entire officer corps of the Red Army, thousands and thousands were sent to Gulags for minor infractions, he used many of his soldiers as cannon fodder, if he feared someone in his cadre he would have him killed, he surrounded himself with thugs and then they didn't perform off to the Gulag they went-if lucky.

Stalin was very paranoid, trusted no one, and hated everyone.

Answer 8

He killed more people than Hitler. I'd say that makes him bad, with a capital B!

Answer 9

STALIN BAD???? YOU MEAN STALINGRAD...HEHE JUST ANSWERING.

Answer 10

does causing the death of nearly 40 million people count?