Question by Wonderful G: why did Stalin send Jews people to Siberia?
I’m reading this book called ‘My Name is Asher lev’. I’m not sure if some people are familiar with but it’s pretty popular book.
So i was wondering why Stalin send the Jews people that lived in Russia to live Siberia? Most of them were killed and some where starved to death.
Ps: I need to cite my sources. So please if you know the answer, can you tell me which website you got it from?
Thanks =-)
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Answer by old lady
Stalin sent hundreds of thousands of people to Siberia – mostly for political reasons. When they served their sentence, they were seldom allowed to return and most lived out their lives in Siberia.
Some starved to death, but probably an equal number starved to death in Russia because times were truly grim. No one, except Party officials, had enough to eat.
Not from a website, but from memory.
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Scottish Dachsy says
1. Stalin was a Communist
2. Stalin was originally a muslim. The people of Georgia (not the state) were muslim.
Koshu says
http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=23579
Stalin was extremely anti simetic. He felt Jewish organizations was bent on destroying the Russian people. He felt that it had begun as far back as in the days of Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Kamenev. Stalin may also have been pre-occupied about the Baruch Plan for World Government, authored by Baruch and Lilienthal, both American Jews. See see baruch-plan.html.
Pavel Sudoplatov also explains that the Jewish AntiFascist Committee (JAC) had alarmed Stalin by proposing a separate Jewish Republic be carved out of the USSR, in the Crimea … backed by American Jewish capitalists. Stalin saw this as a threat to the unity of the USSR: sudoplat.html }
http://mailstar.net/radzinsk.html
Siberia as a place to where send prisoners–from the days of Ivan the Terrible until today.
Choosing Siberia as a Place of Exile As with other Western powers that gained colonies overseas, the acquisition of Siberia led to making it a place of exile. Criminal and political prisoners had been sent to Siberia for more than three centuries; millions of people, in total, were deported there. Due to its remoteness and severe weather conditions 'Russian Australia' was one huge prison, escape from where was almost impossible and very dangerous not only because of the chase, but because of the Siberian killing frosts, unimaginably long distances, bounty-hunting natives, deep forests and wild animals.
Another reason for establishing punishment by exile was the desire of society to banish still cruel and barbarous criminal code of XVII century according to which criminals had been punished by amputation of their limbs, being bastionadoed, and being branded with hot iron. Exile was quick and easy method of getting them out of the way. The punishments, however, didn't become more humane. They just began to happen far away from where most of the people could see them. Before making Siberia place of exile criminals died from being tortured in Moscow; after they died from the hard, exhausting work, cold winters, and diseases in Siberia.
Although originally applied as a corporal punishment, exile can be viewed as a means of population and developing the colony. Government needed people to work in Siberian mines and to build roads, and penal servitude began to replace long prison terms, while list of offences meriting exile steadily lengthened to include even vagrancy, fortune-telling, wife-beating, debts, accidentally starting a fire or drunkenness. In 1754 death penalty was abolished for some years and replaced with exile at hard labor.
Types of Exiles Exiles were divided into four classes: hard-labor convicts (katorzhniks), penal colonists, the merely deported, and volunteer followers such as wife and children. The first two were banished for life, deprived of all civil rights, branded or tattooed. Originally hot iron was used to brand exiles with letters to indicate their crime and status. Later the branding was replaced by deep tattoos. The prisoners were used as a forced labor, mostly in Siberian mines. Those who tried to escape were severely tortured.
When Communists came to power, most of Siberian prisoners were political prisoners who were accused in treason, espionage, sabotage, or anti-Soviet propaganda. Ninety nine percent of them were innocent. Millions of people went through Stalin's GULAG. They served their ten- and twenty-five-year sentences in Siberian camps for nothing. The purpose of arresting innocent people was to destroy not only the opposition, but the idea of the rebellion itself. Not only those who tried to resist and people neutral to the regime were arrested–many prisoners were dedicated Communists who helped to expose 'enemies of the Soviet people' truly believing that they were doing right thing until they were arrested themselves and realized that large proportion of the fellow prisoners was not guilty of any crime.
The Soviet system of forced labour camps was first established in 1919, but it was not until the early 1930s that the camps' population reached significant numbers. By 1934 Gulag had several millions of inmates.
littleblue0209 says
It wasn't just Stalin, the tsars did it too. they sent jews to Siberia or ghettos because they didn't follow the religion of the day nd were considered inferior
Philip L says
Stalin did not send Jews to Siberia because they were jews. His antisemitism is a myth. Stalin was appalled by the Anti-Jewish pograms of the the Czarist period and supported the creation of a Jewish republic. Stalin was against Zionism and cosmopolitanism. Which after Israel embraced American support in Stalin's mind all Zionists were now pro-American and thus anti-Soviet.
Neon says
Stalin created a "Jewish autonomous oblast " called Birobidjan since 1928, where he planned to deport most of Soviet Jews during the "anti-zionist purges" of 1953. It was located in Eastern Siberia, along the Chinese border. But the plan failed for unknown reasons and the whole project was discarded after his death.