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In November, after careful preparation of his body, Stalin was placed next to Lenin. It was a singular honor for a man who competes with Mao Zedong for the title of bloodiest dictator in human history. As architect of the Holocaust and initiator of World War II, Adolf Hitler stands alone, but the other two directly killed more people, especially their own. The text soon circulated, causing an uproar among party faithful worldwide while creating hope for an easing of the Cold War.
His birth name was Dzhugashvili. Every step of the way he was aided by the ambitious, foolish, and fearful. No one man, no matter how competent, determined, and powerful, can wreak such havoc alone.
But not Malenkov, Molotov, and the others. Domestic repression eased. The Stalinist era officially ended on November 1, At the 22nd Party Congress that October, Khrushchev announced the reburial of Stalin, then still on public display. Yesterday I consulted him. Yes, he had damaged the party.
And a lot more, like carrying out mass murder and imprisonment. But never mind; the symbolism remained dramatic. Ukrainian historians say that hundreds of thousands of people were killed during Joseph Stalin's violent repression of the s, with other mass graves found in Odessa and elsewhere in Ukraine. One of the largest sites is at Bykivnia, a forest outside the capital Kyiv, where some estimates say that more than , executed political prisoners may have been buried.
Millions of Ukrainians also died during a Stalin-era famine from , which is seen by many in Ukraine as an act of genocide carried out by the Soviet leader - although Russia denies this. Revealing the horror of Stalin. Memories of Ukraine's silent massacre. Image source, Aleksander Babich. Public domain. Stalin's tomb near the Kremlin wall. Subscribe to our newsletter! Get the week's best stories straight to your inbox. We've got more than 2,2 million followers on Facebook.
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