Mass repressions in the USSR: truth or fiction?

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Today, on October 30, the "progressive democratic community" of Russia and some other countries of the post-Soviet space will again celebrate the Day of Remembrance of the Victims political repression. As always - generously shedding crocodile tears for the "innocent", cursing the "Stalinist executioners" and mournfully calling for "the fight against totalitarianism."


Judging by the "speeches" of the liberals in anticipation of the date, the main emphasis will be placed just at the last moment. Arranging the most real dances on the bones, turning lies to lies and fiction to fiction, this whole audience does not at all seek to perpetuate the past. She marks the future of Russia ...



The theme of "Stalinist repressions" is not something that is not new - it is almost overwritten with holes. However, in silence and bypassing it, we are, in fact, giving up this extremely painful issue to the throaty liberal tribe, providing it with new opportunities for denigrating our history and for the extremely foul-smelling political games. So let’s try, at least briefly, to answer a few fundamental questions. Namely: Have the very “mass” repressions that “human rights activists” shouted about in the Soviet Union? Was the infringement of the rights and freedoms of citizens in our country a truly unique phenomenon? Well, and finally - by whom and when and why was this myth launched and supported to this day?

The figures cited by the "sorrows for innocent sitters" are terrifying. The "billions" (!) Of those who were serving their sentences, voiced at one time on Ekho Moskvy by the "memorial" Nikolai Petrov, and the "tens of millions" of convicts found by the famous anti-Stalinist Olga Shatunovskaya in some "KGB secret report," which, as it turned out, never existed in nature. With the executed, the situation is even cooler! From the dissident “historian” Roy Medvedev voiced in “perestroika” times, 40 million of them have grown, first up to 100 million in the lips of the writer Bunich, and then up to 150 million, about which the late Nemtsov broadcast on the television screen in 2003. At the same time, the most “conscientious” of the liberals made a reservation that in these “calculations” they also included “unborn children” who were repressed, although such tricks are in itself cheating pure water.

Moreover, no one cares about the fact that to refute such wild fabrications, there is not even history, but elementary arithmetic. And if we apply also demography ... Even 40 million “executed” are the population of the then Belarus and Ukraine combined. Or - all city residents of the USSR! This is the population of countries such as France or Italy in 1941. In this situation (after all, millions were still in the camps, haven’t you forgotten ?!), entire regions should have been completely depopulated in the Union. Who, then, built factories and roads, built the Dnieper hydroelectric station and Magnitogorsk, sowed bread and mined coal? Who, in the end, fought with millions of fascist hordes and defeated them ?! Zeki, or what? According to the logic of our "human rights defenders," that was exactly what it was: "Half the country was sitting, half the country was guarded." But ... No way!

And here is the last argument, already cited, by the way (by the same P. Krasnov) - after the end of the Great Patriotic War in every, practically, family there was, if not killed at the front, then at least fought. As a rule - not one per family. Moreover, the number of fighters is well known - about 34 and a half million people. The number of irretrievable military losses of the Red Army - about 12 million. These are real numbers! Was the picture of the “repressed” at least approximately the same, did this disaster really affect every (or at least every second) Soviet family? Of course not. There can be no talk of 100 million people shot at all! The entire population of the USSR at the beginning of 1941 was less than 200 million.

How was everything really? The archives of the Cheka-GPU-NKVD-KGB were opened long ago, the tragic figures were studied by real historians and statisticians. According to reliable figures, on January 1, 1941, the number of prisoners in the camps did not reach even two and a half million people. In 1950, this figure reached a maximum of 2 million 780 thousand. How many prisoners went through places of deprivation of liberty in the USSR for all the years of “repression”? Just this figure is the most difficult to calculate - the sentences were considerable, but in places of detention they could be “hung up” to them or, conversely, “knocked down”. But to get the "total number" by adding all the numbers for each year - only liberals who are not friends with arithmetic and conscience can do this!

And, by the way, here's another thing ... Speaking of the total number of prisoners, our “human rights” audience, with some fright, suggests that they all be convicted “under political charges”. Well, that is - a priori they are absolutely innocent ... Nevertheless, the percentage of "political" prisoners in the USSR is precisely calculated in the most accurate way. In 1930, there were less than 30%, in 1937 and 1938 - 41 and 59.5%, respectively. And the last figure is the highest for all years. By 1940, it again fell below 40%. This, note the data of the NKVD, which (according to the logic of liberoids!) The percentage of "enemies of the people" would have to be overestimated in every possible way! However, that is, that is. The vast majority of “prisoners of the Stalinist camps” were the most common thieves, murderers, rapists and embezzlers. That is - they were serving sentences for very real criminal offenses.

With the executed, the picture is even sadder - for the “democratic public”. There is generally a slaughter document - a certificate prepared especially for Khrushchev and signed by the Prosecutor General of the USSR and two whole ministers - the Interior and Justice. There is no doubt that when making a request for her preparation, the bald General Secretary gave the appropriate installation - to depict the "atrocities" of Stalin, the "cult of personality" of which he was preparing to "expose" with gloomy colors. However, the document says in black and white - for the period from 1921 to 1954 in the USSR for the so-called "counter-revolutionary crimes" 3 people were convicted. Of these, the death penalty - 777 780 people! According to some other data, this figure could be slightly larger - within 642 with a small thousand. In this case, I note - we are talking about sentences! Not all of them were carried out. This is what the real numbers of “repression” look like.

Now, finally, about the "mass" of those. If, using the above figures, an elementary calculation is made, it turns out that on average, in the Stalinist USSR, punishment in places not so distant served from about 1200 with a small to 1500 people per hundred thousand people. Let me remind you - this is counting with criminals of all stripes! Is it a lot or a little? Judge for yourself - in the "stronghold of democracy and freedom around the world" in the United States of America, this figure at the end of the twentieth century was approximately 750 people per 100 thousand inhabitants. No war, a completely different standard of living, jury trials ...

But what in America, almost immediately after Pearl Harbor, they imprisoned, without exception, all Japanese who were in the country, numbering 110 thousand, what should I call it? And - not that in the absence of the slightest evidence of involvement in "hostile activities" against the United States, but completely without taking into account gender, age and the presence of American citizenship? Are these already mass repressions, or not? And no one, mind you, didn’t think of arranging any “memorials” about this. The government apologized through clenched teeth - twenty years later, paid some compensation - and that’s all. Forgot! Again - we will not discount the fact that the "repressed" in the USSR went through the investigation and the court. And there were cases of closed cases, acquittals and very harsh punishments for false denunciations and slander. In the United States, nothing of the kind was close: they raked all the Chokh - and for the "thorn". As there was no trial of several hundred criminals shot in Paris in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War and the transition of the city to a state of siege. They built in the ditches in front of the Vincennes castle - and the “adyu” ... There is no NKVD - continuous European democracy.

By the way, about the "innocence of the repressed." Our liberal public has adopted this right for the axiom: sitting under Stalin? According to the "political" article? Well, it means that he is innocently convicted and is subject to unconditional rehabilitation! I dare to answer with one tricky question: if the enemies of the Soviet government, those who really wanted harm to the Soviet Union and the people who inhabited it, were not in 1937, then how did they get so much in 1941 ?! From what hellish abyss did the Vlasovites, policemen, burgomasteres and wardens lick the boots of the Nazis and exterminate their own compatriots? Where did the Gestapo traitors, provocateurs and informants, security guards in concentration camps and other nonhumans come from, as it turned out, only they were angrily and patiently waiting in the wings? So there were no "enemies of the people" in the USSR?

And this, mind you, despite the fact that the US ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph W. Davis, wrote in the summer of 1941: "The Russians shot all potential Hitler accomplices!" Notice, I didn’t condemn, but I admired: “Only now you begin to realize how far-sighted the“ purges ”in the USSR were.” It was only then in Washington that they began to yell about the "Stalinist repressions" and greet Memorial and the like. Our country has ceased to be an ally and has turned into a mortal enemy - and so the emphasis has changed at once.

However, alas, it was not the Americans who launched the vile lie about "mass repression" into circulation. The first pebble in the coming Tower of Babel of lies was laid by Khrushchev, who carried nonsense from the rostrum of the Twentieth Congress about "tens of millions in camps." And then - off and on. What is most disgusting, perhaps the greatest contribution to the fanning of the myth was made by just “prominent party members” - to take the same Yakovlev, a former member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, chatting about “one hundred million destroyed”. We owe it to them, established by the decree of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR “Day of Remembrance”, which is nothing but blasphemy over the true memory of those who truly became an innocent victim, having landed in the ruthless millstones of the Great History.

It’s enough to look at those who are trying today to fan the topic of “mass repressions”, arranging “Return of Names” on the Lubyanka clearly to the peak of the “Immortal Regiment” to understand why this is necessary. The director who turned the commemoration in Perm into a kind of “immersive performance” tries to broadcast thoughtfully: “I personally am deeply convinced that nothing ended! The 37th year may well repeat itself ... ”What is it for? Why at a time when Russia is fit to fear the repetition of 1941 ?!

No one says there was no repression. No one is trying to argue that everything was correct (though - such categories are not applicable to history at all). But a lie and hypocrisy cannot be honored by anyone's memory. They can only desecrate it.
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  1. -5
    30 October 2018 12: 09
    The Vlasovites and other "accomplices" "crawled out" because of the "dispossession", "kolkhozization", "physical destruction of" harmful "classes" at the root "(as" grandfather "Lenin" bequeathed to the commies, "the distribution system", the GULAG, etc. "charms" of the establishment of Bolshevism and their construction of a "just" (in their opinion) state, first, in a separate country (which no one feels sorry for), and then "in the whole world."
  2. +4
    30 October 2018 12: 23
    It would not be bad to "clean up" part of the political "elite" today. How will the united west look at it? Isn't it all the same? Whatever we do, they will criticize. Does it make sense to take their opinion into account? It is precisely those who will seek support there that need to be "cleaned out". Our "creative community" has long been of interest to one part of the FSB, and the other part of the BEP. 1941 at one time showed that everything was not done in vain, and even not enough, bearing in mind some unrest in a number of national outskirts.
  3. +1
    30 October 2018 16: 18
    In 1937, they came to my great-grandfather's house, arrested him without any explanation and took him to an unknown destination! His family generally did not know anything about him for about six months, and then a funeral came! In 1957, great-grandfather was rehabilitated
    1. +1
      30 October 2018 19: 32
      Quote: Alex Nevsky
      In 1937, they came to my great-grandfather's house, arrested him without any explanation.

      In any family, only heroic legends will be kept. This is such a pattern. Not at all in the discussion of your grandfather. My grandfather told me the truth about his imprisonment a year before his death, which did not spoil our relationship at all.
      1. 0
        30 October 2018 22: 03
        Glad for your relationship with your grandfather. But if he was a criminal, this does not mean that everyone was them.
        1. 0
          30 October 2018 22: 22
          Quote: rodo
          But if he was a criminal, this does not mean that everyone was them.

          And I'm not saying that everyone was a criminal, but their number was significant, including among the supposedly political. Visit any zone today; three quarters of the prisoners will tell you that they are innocently convicted. Memoirs and memories are a very slippery historical source. Any historian will tell you this. And God knows, he will be able to confess his own sins, one of hundreds. So today it is a child’s naive to affirm who came to whom with what goals and foundations 80 years ago. Anyway, it makes no sense to paint such a dark topic in a short article when there is a mass of quite solid solid serious research literature. An article for the very near. IMHO
        2. 0
          1 November 2018 03: 27
          Quote: rodo
          Glad for your relationship with your grandfather. But if he was a criminal, this does not mean that everyone was them.

          But arrest does not mean lack of guilt. Anything can happen
  4. -1
    30 October 2018 20: 31
    It’s blasphemous to say: there are so many shot! Even if, according to political convictions, one Tragedy Man was shot! And shot in the thousands! Look in the books of memory of the victims of repression and you will find your relatives among the executed! And these lists were compiled by the KGB of the USSR! This service was not mistaken, as it is not mistaken now! The author with a custom-made article spits in the past and history will not forgive such a false history, just as children of executed, tortured in camps will not forgive! Their fate is also not sweet to be children of the enemy of the people means to lose everything! So history will not forgive spitting in the past! And the liberals have nothing to do with it! They raise one banner to assert themselves, the Communists (modern) - another! But Khrushchev didn’t condemn these repressions, but the Communists - then this question was the most important, if they hadn’t let off steam, anything could have happened, even a loss of faith in the CPSU! Do not raise this question, it was decided at the 20th Party Congress, Mr. Chatterbox!
    1. +2
      31 October 2018 00: 02
      Didn't Khrushchev condemn Stalin? Are you seriously? Hmm ... No comment here. Yes, they shot and arrested innocents, but people like Yezhov were shot after all! This same Khrushchev sent notes expanding the number of execution lists, and the same Stalin wrote to him: "Calm down!" After Yezhovism, after all, everything returned to normal, when Beria was put on the post of Lawrence. Nothing is said about the fact that the party saw the catastrophic scope of Yezhovism. And everyone blames Stalin. This is stupid. Imagine a situation that as the owner of a manufacturing enterprise you put a bad manager and he recruited slobs who produced goods of poor quality and more slowly? In your opinion, then you will be to blame, and not the person who took the fools. And yes, I suppress any exclamations that it was better to look for a leader: all people are mistaken, there is Stalin's fault in something, but it is indirect
    2. +1
      1 November 2018 03: 39
      Quote: Valery Ryumin
      Do not raise this question, it was decided at the 20th Party Congress, Mr. Chatterbox!

      Well, actually, at the congresses then there was only chatter and a talking shop, but unanimous approval! And the documented facts indicate that there were repressions, but it is impossible to recognize them as massive. There were also innocent victims, but not all of them. I.V. Stalin, with the help of L.P. Beria managed to stop the repressions unleashed by Khrushchev, Eikhe, and other regional "barons" of that time, in order to preserve their warm places. They were frightened by Stalin's proposal to hold alternative elections to all levels of government. And they tried to arrange a total sweep in their regions. It is necessary to study historical facts and not rely on chatter and emotions.
  5. 0
    30 October 2018 23: 37
    Bravo author! I really did expect at least some kind of research ... Well, it didn't work out, well ... Nemtsov is not a historian, and Necropny is neither. It happens. But I would like a remark. Auschwitz has never held more than 60 people. This is the question of playing with numbers. Let's put the author proved that 000 million people who sat down in the 1st came out in the 41th. OK. Plus 57 thousand on top. Those. 800% of the population in prison or to the wall, this is not a massive repression, but only for the sake of the "Great Purpose", so generally a trifle. OK. These are 1,5 people from my notebook. Fine.
    1. +3
      30 October 2018 23: 50
      Do not forget that some political prisoners convicted in 37 and 38 years were released if they did not admit their guilt. About 24 people were sent to the wall for watered crimes from the 53th to the 800rd year of the war (the maximum sentence). For almost 000 years. But enemies no matter how you twist there were many (Trotskyites). Yes, there were many innocently convicted, this is bad, but do not shout that a significant part of the convicted are not criminals. Do not invent. And not 30%. Why did you pile up all the numbers and give it out against the background of the population in a certain year? What kind of nonsense? The statistics, as I wrote above, were taken for almost 1.5 years
  6. +2
    31 October 2018 10: 57
    For some reason, the current rulers do not consider their "pension reform" repressions.
    1. 0
      3 November 2018 21: 07
      Quote: Altona
      For some reason, the current rulers do not consider their "pension reform" repressions.

      And what do you see repressions in? Note that no one talks about the obligation to work. It is only said that they will pay a pension in the absence of harm and other preferential factors from the age of 65. This means that if you have the opportunity with your savings to compensate for the missing salary from the workplace, then you can go on vacation at any time. That is, for example, you have accumulated 1 rubles for yourself, when you are 200 years old you go on vacation and up to 000 years old have 60 rubles per month from your savings. And at 65, you begin to receive a pension from the FIU. Arithmetic is simple. I do not want to say that all reform is the height of good thinking. But, apparently, power is not capable of more today. One way or another, we will have to live in these conditions. You just need to prepare for your pension, i.e. think about it in advance and take concrete actions, rather than shedding tears and snot.
  7. -1
    31 October 2018 11: 36
    The author of the article is a liar and a scoundrel.
    1. 0
      1 November 2018 03: 43
      Quote: Victor Matisen
      The author of the article is a liar and a scoundrel.

      A little evidence to confirm?
  8. +3
    31 October 2018 14: 11
    It's time for us, before we have forgotten everything, to begin a substantive conversation about the repressions of our people during the Yeltsin devastation in the USSR-Russia from 1991 to 2000, during which more than 17 million inhabitants of our country untimely passed away from hunger and unemployment and hopelessness, when in our Gulyai-pole-Russia, gangs of thugs ruled, grabbing the whole of Russia into their bottomless pockets, when in broad daylight they killed people for nothing, and now in Russia these bandits are called oligarchs and bankers, the owners of the largest enterprises of the former USSR .... The time has come to look at it more closely, what the so-called The "young reformers" are the current "liberals".
  9. -2
    31 October 2018 21: 19
    How you need to despise your people in order to act like a fool, talking about "crocodile tears" about the victims of repression, while citing "crystal-clear archival data" about those imprisoned, shot ... To quote the "archival data" of the department that killed, imprisoned , raped, humiliated children, women, men, old people ... At the same time, the holy fools are silent about the criminals who died in the camps from the knives, who died from slave labor. A patriot of his country and his people is not only the one who puts on the St. George ribbon on Victory Day, but also the one who remembers and honors the long-suffering history of our great people.
    1. -2
      31 October 2018 21: 23
      Now, when they talk about "oligarchs", "terrible 90s", one must not forget that the country was brought to ruin by the mediocre, criminal leadership of the economy by the top of the CPSU, who gobbled up, distributed, plundered national wealth to their loved ones .. Almost 100 years ago the Bolsheviks having destroyed Russia, they distributed territories that had been gathered for centuries .. It was the "best friend of athletes" who gave the original Russian territories to Ukraine, formed out of nothing. Now Russia has blood and then wins it all back.
      1. +1
        1 November 2018 04: 14
        Quote: Oleg Grigoriev
        Almost 100 years ago, the Bolsheviks, having destroyed Russia, distributed territories that had been gathered for centuries

        Yes, you are completely off topic! The Russian Empire collapsed as a result of the February bourgeois revolution of 1917 and the abdication of Nicholas ll from the See on March 2, 1917. Power passed to the Provisional Government, led by the talker Kerensky. Kerensky’s government failed to ensure order and state. control. The collapse of a single country began, Finland, Poland, New Russia and Little Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, the Baltic states fell away. The Bolsheviks came to power only in November 17, overthrowing the Provisional Government, when RI had not existed for 8 months. And about the creation of the so-called Ukrainian SSR in the South Russian lands, V.I. Lenin insisted on this. He was a supporter of the federalization of the country, and Stalin, a friend of athletes, was exactly against this. Stalin offered instead autonomy without the right to secede from the country, but Lenin and his team rejected the Stalin compromise proposal.
      2. 0
        3 November 2018 21: 17
        Quote: Oleg Grigoriev
        Almost 100 years ago, the Bolsheviks, having ruined Russia, distributed territories that had been collected for centuries ... It was the "sportsmen's best friend" who gave the original Russian territories to Ukraine, formed out of nothing. Now Russia has blood and then wins it all back.

        "Sportsmen's best friend" carried out the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture, which made it possible to overpower a powerful enemy. And it is not at all his fault that almost modern boobies could not bloodlessly defend the interests of the country when signing various agreements. And in general, only narrow-minded or ungrateful people can mock their history and significant personalities. IMHO
    2. Alf
      +1
      1 November 2018 23: 37
      Quote: Oleg Grigoriev
      Above cynicism to quote "archival data" of the department that killed, imprisoned, raped, humiliated children, women, men, old people ...

      That is precisely why all memorialists, Solzhenitsyn, Novodvorskaya and do not like such boring numbers. Because their nonsense becomes very noticeable.
  10. +2
    1 November 2018 10: 28
    Repressions as such were at all times in the history of the world and they were justified by the vital necessity of maintaining the state. This was proved in 1991, when it was precisely those who have not yet been repressed who destroyed the Soviet power. But no one ever yelled like that, as in modern Russia, and all because I. Stalin made one mistake - he saved the life of these bastards, defeating fascism and creating a nuclear shield. Today, all this scum would fertilize the fields of the Third Reich, or was an imprint on the walls of US nuclear bombs. You screaming scum and your offspring owe your worthless life to I. Stalin. It is insignificant because they did nothing for the prosperity of Russia and its people.
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  12. kig
    +1
    4 November 2018 15: 06
    There was nothing, of course, all this is the invention of enemies that are around.

    In 1929 - 1930, Innokentiy Smoktunovsky's father and grandfather were dispossessed and repressed. Smoktunovsky's maternal grandfather, merchant Akim Stepanovich Makhnev, kept a store. He was dispossessed, arrested by the OGPU branch of the USSR in 1930, sentenced for "counter-revolutionary insurgency" (the standard charge of those years) to 10 years in forced labor camps and was shot in May of the same year. The grandfather was not rehabilitated until 1989. The actor's father Mikhail Smoktunovich was a miller. He was dispossessed, sentenced to a year in prison and three years in exile. He was accused of "exploiting labor" and selling grain at an inflated price. The actor's uncle, Grigory Petrovich Smoktunovich, was shot in 1937 in the case of "creating a cadet-monarchist organization."
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