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Josef Stalin

• Dictators and Genocide The Most extreme
  consequence of bullying

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Have you ever

• Told a political joke?
• Laughed at one?

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Article 58

• Stalins LAW used to control Russians
• This law gave him total power to convict anyone
  of anything at his whim
• As a result Russians lived in terror

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Arrests under Article 58

• A shepherd in a fit of anger swore at his cow 25
  years in the gulags (prison)
• A deaf and dumb carpenter was working in a club
  laying floors, everything had been removed from
  the room and there was no where to hang his coat,
  so he hung it on a bust of Lenin 10 years
• Two children were wrestling in a barn at a
  collective farm and knocked a picture of Stalin
  off the wall. They got 10 years and their parents
  got 25 years for allegedly telling them to do it.

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Josef Stalin
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Russian Revolution

• 1917, Russia in the middle of World War One
• Poverty, discontent, massive deaths
• Tsar wont do anything about it
• Violent revolution puts in a communist
  government.
• Tsar family executed

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Tsar Nicholas II and his family
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Communism

• System where EVERYTHING is owned by the
  government
• In theory it promises
• equality, power and
• everything you need in life
• In reality, a dictator
• ends up controlling
• everyone and
• everything and
• the people
• are poor and powerless.

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Stalins Paranoia!!!!

• Secret police KGB (called Men of Stone because
  they are driven by revenge and feel no emotion)
• Kills anyone he didnt personally hire
• Kills those who helped him to get in power
• Kills anyone suspected of being against him

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How Stalin Controls

• Torture to get people to confess to
• fake crimes (no sleep, beatings)
• Fake Trials
• Gulags (prisons)
• The Great Purge (or Great Terror) 1930s anyone
  considered against the revolution, Stalin or even
  just suspicious was arrested, tortured, deported,
  killed or sent to Gulags

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Gulags

• Dirty
• Cold
• Sleep on
• cement floor
• One small
• meal a day
• 16 hours of
• straight labour

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Reasons For Imprisonment

• Reading, seeing or discussing anything
• Illegal
• Western
• Religious
• Counter-
• revolutionary

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Mennonites

• Sect of Christianity
• Like the Amish
• Believe in Pacifism
• Stalin hated them because
• Had farms
• Religious
• Pacifists
• German

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Pacifism

• Opposition to war or violence as a means of
  settling disputes
• Refusal to bear arms on moral or religious
  grounds
• Religious Mennonites believe that Jesus was a
  pacifist

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The Ukrainians

• Independent until Stalin took them over
• 1931-32 Fought Stalin for independence
• Angry, Stalin forced them to export all of their
  grain to Russia
• 5 million Ukrainians
• died of starvation

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Stalins Death

• Doctors Plot Doctors trying to poison Russians
  through medication
• Discredited doctors
• No one was brave enough to call a doctor when
  Stalin had a stroke in March of 1953
• He died later that week.

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Political Joke

• Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, and Stephen
  Harper were all on a private jet together.
  Stephen Harper gets an idea and says, Im going
  to throw this 100 dollar bill out the window and
  make one Canadian very happy. Michael Ignatieff
  doesnt want to be outdone, so he says, Ill
  throw these two fifties out the window and make
  two Canadians really, really happy. Jack Layton
  decides to go with the flow and says Ill throw
  100 loonies and make 100 Canadians really,
  really, really happy. At this point the pilot
  interrupts and says If you dont shut up, Ill
  throw all 3 of you out the window and make 32
  million Canadians really happy!