We are no strangers to the Leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, because he helped our country to quickly pacify the Japanese army in the northeast region and hastened the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not hesitate to evaluate him as
"Stalin inherited a traditional and backward Russia, but what was left to the world was a Soviet Union with nuclear weapons such as atomic bombs, comparable to those of the United States"!
But it was such a person who built a strong Soviet Union, but after his death, he was criticized by the people of the whole country. Interestingly, in 2008, in the selection of the "Greatest Russians" held by Russia, Stalin surpassed Peter the Great and Lenin in third place.
The "Great Purge" triggered by Stalin's dictatorship caused heavy casualties in the Soviet Union
In the early 1930s, as the Soviet Union gradually completed its transformation from an agrarian country to an industrial country, the Soviet Union also changed from a country that imported machinery and equipment to a country that produced machinery and equipment. The Soviet Union has formed a relatively complete industrial system, which also raised Stalin, who first proposed to industrialize the Soviet Union, to a new height, and the Soviet people have built statues of Stalin everywhere, and the Personality Cult of Stalin in the Soviet Union at this time has reached a very serious level, which also triggered the "Great Purge" that lasted for 4 years.
During this period, some 1.3 million people were sentenced and nearly 700,000 were executed by firing squad, and the "Great Purge" almost wiped out the entire soviet officer class (the purge killed 3 of the 5 marshals, 3 of the 4 first-class army generals, all 12 second-class army generals, 60 of the 67 commanders, 136 of the 199 division commanders, and 221 of the 397 brigade commanders). ）
The 6 leaders of the CPSU mentioned in Lenin's will when he died were executed except for Stalin, which further strengthened Stalin's "dictatorship". Stalin declared at the Congress of the Usser Union in 1939: "These executed people say that they have not made serious mistakes, but unfortunately they do not know that they have made more mistakes than they expected." ”
He died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, and Khrushchev, who came to power, attributed all his credit to Stalin
In March 1953, Stalin died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 74. Khrushchev, who came to power later, issued a secret report at the "Twentieth Congress" of the Soviet Union, summarizing the roots of the "Great Purge" caused by the previous Stalin dictatorship to stalin's character flaws and psychopathy that no one but himself believed, and during Stalin's dictatorship, he left a hundred billion inheritances to his children.
After this "secret report" was revealed by relevant sources, the people of the whole country demanded a thorough investigation of Stalin's property. To this end, Khrushchev set up a special Moscow liquidation group, headed by Nezov, to investigate Stalin's property.
Surprising liquidation results
After some time, Nezov gave the result that surprised everyone, and the liquidation results showed that Stalin's property was not only not as much as people thought, but also less pitiful. As a former leader of the Soviet Union, his private savings were only 900 rubles, not even comparable to an ordinary Soviet worker, let alone the so-called "hundreds of billions of inheritances", and this result also made everyone feel ashamed.
brief summary
Stalin's actions are still controversial, with some saying that he was a "tyrant" because in the 1930s countless Soviets died at his hands through the "Great Purge" and exile. But there are also those who highly praise his glorious victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, and his "Five-Year Plan" after coming to power transformed the Soviet Union from a backward agrarian country into an advanced industrial country. As Russian President Vladimir Putin has said: "There is no doubt that something positive exists, but at an unacceptable cost." In particular, there has been repression. This is a fact. Millions of our compatriots have been suppressed. This method of managing the country and achieving success is unacceptable to us. This cannot be done. There is no doubt that what we encountered during this period was not simply a cult of personality, but a massive crime against our own people. This is also true. Nor should we forget this. ”