How did Stalin murder people?

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1. Otto von Bismarck says

   Don't you know? Fox News was talking about "millions of people"!

   Stalin personally killed people and then ate them. He and Beria ate about 30-60 millions of Russians and about 10 millions of German POWs. They made "tushenka" also and sent it to feed people during Siege of Leningrad. To crash the bones they used a huge meat grinder as everybody can see in "The Wall" movie by Pink Floyd. That's why nobody can find dead bodies of millions of victims.
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   If you want to know truth you have to make deeper research, not in Yahoo Answers. http://www.hrono.ru/statii/2001/zemskov.html . Russian, but understandable.
   Table 1. Number of prisoners by years/
   Column "Всего" (Total)
   Maximum of prisoners in USSR was in 1950 (2 561 351). That was because of war – many traitors still were in prisons.
   In 1938 (peak of "mass unwarranted repressions") – 1881570.
   For example, in modern Russia there are 877600 prisoners.
   In USA there are 2310984 prisoners now. Without any Stalin lol )
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
   "At least 724,000 were executed".
   According to Memorial society – most Anti-Stalin society! They prefer to find documents with millions of victims but there are NO such documents!

   Other source show 642980 executed from 1921 till 1954. <a href="http://books.google.ru/books?id=pauzf4BZ8gAC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=1921+1954+executed+642980&source=bl&ots=r5I-cYsDRG&sig=Km1J5uD3irslYJZMhqit9WuQRas&hl=ru&ei=YBnzSpX_AZLx-Qa5gt2rBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=1921%201954%20executed%20642980&f=false&quot; rel="nofollow"&gt <a href="http://;http://books.google.ru/books?id=pauzf4BZ8gAC&pg=P…” target=”_blank”>;http://books.google.ru/books?id=pauzf4BZ8gAC&pg=P…

   So, stop talking about "millions of Stalin victims". He was not better or worse that other European and USA leaders that days.

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2. Little Hussein says

   He "murdered thousands of people," ????

   He murdered and butchered MILLIONS of people ! He is history`s WORST murdering butcher !! Stalin murdered between 7 and 10 million Ukrainians ALONE !! He did this primarily through starvation . He starved people to the point they were eating the corpses of their neighbors !!

   Stalin murdered more than18 million people all together ! His Secret Police used to delight in torturing political prisoners cruelly before they shot them in the back of the head !

   Stalin took great pleasure in torturing helpless citizens personally !

   He was , and is history`s most vile monster !!

   But yet most Russians worship him today …………

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3. J&C H says

   He ordered the total elimination of a village or town of any who resisted him. He had army troops kill every living thing, down to the last chicken, in order to bring people around to his way of thinking.
   He captured other dissidents and sent them off to Siberian labor camps where they died working.
   He ordered human wave charges into the teeth of the Germans advance.
   Saying he murdered so many is simply a term, not an actual physical action on his part.

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4. Em says

   Stalin launched a command economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans and launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization. The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine, such as the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932-1933, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor.
   During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery; he extended it to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. Targets were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps or exiled. In the years following, millions of ethnic minorities were also deported.
   Stalin vastly increased the scope and power of the state's secret police and intelligence agencies. Under his guiding hand, Soviet intelligence forces began to set up intelligence networks in most of the major nations of the world, including Germany (the famous Rote Kappelle spy ring), Great Britain, France, Japan, and the United States. Stalin saw no difference between espionage, communist political propaganda actions, and state-sanctioned violence, and he began to integrate all of these activities within the NKVD. Stalin made considerable use of the Communist International movement in order to infiltrate agents and to ensure that foreign Communist parties remained pro-Soviet and pro-Stalin.
   One of the best examples of Stalin's ability to integrate secret police and foreign espionage came in 1940, when he gave approval to the secret police to have Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico.
   In the 1930s, Stalin apparently became increasingly worried about the growing popularity of Sergei Kirov. At the 1934 Party Congress where the vote for the new Central Committee was held, Kirov received only three negative votes, the fewest of any candidate, while Stalin received 1,108 negative votes. After the assassination of Kirov, which may have been orchestrated by Stalin, Stalin invented a detailed scheme to implicate opposition leaders in the murder, including Trotsky, Kamenev and Zioviev. The investigations and trials expanded. Stalin passed a new law on "terrorist organizations and terrorist acts", which were to be investigated for no more than ten days, with no prosecution, defense attorneys or appeals, followed by a sentence to be executed "quickly."
   Thereafter, several trials known as the Moscow Trials were held, but the procedures were replicated throughout the country. Article 58 of the legal code, listing prohibited anti-Soviet activities as counterrevolutionary crime was applied in the broadest manner. The flimsiest pretexts were often enough to brand someone an "enemy of the people," starting the cycle of public persecution and abuse, often proceeding to interrogation, torture and deportation, if not death. The Russian word troika gained a new meaning: a quick, simplified trial by a committee of three subordinated to NKVD with sentencing carried out within 24 hours.
   Many military leaders were convicted of treason, and a large scale purging of Red Army officers followed. The repression of so many formerly high-ranking revolutionaries and party members led Leon Trotsky to claim that a "river of blood" separated Stalin's regime from that of Lenin. In August 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico, where he had lived in exile since January 1937; this eliminated the last of Stalin's opponents among the former Party leadership. The only three "Old Bolsheviks" (Lenin's Politburo) that remained were Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin, and Chairman of Sovnarkom Vyacheslav Molotov.
   Mass operations of the NKVD also targeted "national contingents" (foreign ethnicities) such as Poles, ethnic Germans, Koreans, etc. A total of 350,000 (144,000 of them Poles) were arrested and 247,157 (110,000 Poles) were executed. Many Americans who had emigrated to the Soviet Union during the worst of the Great Depression were executed; others were sent to prison camps or gulags. Concurrent with the purges, efforts were made to rewrite the history in Soviet textbooks and other propaganda materials. Notable people executed by NKVD were removed from the texts and photographs as though they never existed. Gradually, the history of revolution was transformed to a story about just two key characters: Lenin and Stalin.
   In light of revelations from the Soviet archives, historians now estimate that nearly 700,000 people (353,074 in 1937 and 328,612 in 1938) were executed in the course of the terror, with the great mass of victims being "ordinary" Soviet citizens: workers, peasants, homemakers, teachers, priests, musicians, soldiers, pensioners, ballerinas, beggars. Some experts believe the evidence released from the Soviet archives is understated, incomplete or unreliable. For example, Robert Conquest suggests that the probable figure for executions during the years of the Great Purge is not

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5. Chris says

   Pretty much how Hitler killed Jews. Sometimes they would get dragged out of their homes and shot in the streets. Many went to prison camps in Siberia, and then starvation of course.

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6. Streeta J says

   one at a tip

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7. lpg says

   he sent them at some worker camps,and they got executed

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8. Witty user name says

   With charisma of course.

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