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Why did Stalin kill so many people?

Why did Stalin kill his own people?

  • It seems to me that the greatest way to weaken your country is to kill a quarter of its population so why did Stalin do it? I mean I know you can't talk reason about a madman but ...show more

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    He didn't do it to weaken his country - he was extremely concerned about invasion - he did it to strengthen his country. to 'weed out' counter-revolutionary elements who might side with the enemy. The Great Purge began to root out those people who had joined the party after the revolution in order to further their careers, not for ideological reasons. Another target were the thousands of foreign technicians brought in in the first years of the Five Year Plans to build and run the new machines and to train the workers in how to operate them. This was a much more organised wave of violence than the famine. Regional soviets and party organisations were sent a list of the numbers of people to be arrested, to be imprisoned and to be executed. Guilt or innocence was not a factor in the selection of numbers or of the personnel selected. As the purges went on the focus changed and often the former heads of local parties and soviets were themselves the targets, again lists were sent out with the number of people to be arrested, imprisoned or executed. Estimates for victims of the great purges range from about 600,000 to 30 million. At the moment the best estimate is (I think) around 2.5 million - if you include all the people who died from overwork, cold, disease and neglect in the Gulag.

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It is easy to call someone mad but that ducks the real situation. Stalin ruled by fear, what better way to keep a population cowed than by removing his opposition in a brutal fashion while keeping your supporters buoyed?

Tim D

He was a tyrant and hated people

Kevin7

Your beliefs determine your world view.No God= abortion,immorality,murder,homosexuality etc. Stalin began as a christian until he became an atheist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Early_life Others like him,polpot,hitler

Newman Dobri

To keep himself in power he killed everybody and kept the entire population, including the elite, in fear.

Donuts N Bacon

hes a communist and wanted everything his way,any opposition towards him led him to believe they would try to defy them therefore he killed them to get rid of his opposers

Rara

Population control.

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