Mass repressions in the USSR: truth or fiction?
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.
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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