Stalin and The Betrayal of Leningrad part 3/5

Part 3/5

Stalin was always suspicious of Russia's former capital. Its huge cultural, scientific and economic importance, its historical role as the cradle of the 1917 Revolution, its pre-eminent position in the history of the Russian intelligentsia - all produced a dangerous spirit of independence when viewed from the Kremlin.

From 1918 to 1926, moreover, it was the power base of Grigorii Zinoviev, one of Stalin's main rivals to succeed Lenin.

After Zinoviev's downfall Stalin installed Sergei Kirov as first secretary of the Leningrad party, and Trotsky's and Zinoviev's followers were ruthlessly purged. Though a loyal Stalinist, Kirov may well also, in turn, have come to be seen as a threat.

A popular figure and - unlike Stalin - a Russian, by the early 1930s he was certainly seen by some in the Party as preferable to Stalin as leader. His assassination in December 1934 has often been attributed to Stalin, though official investigations under Khrushchev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin failed to unearth conclusive evidence of this.

What is certain is that Stalin seized the opportunity presented by Kirov's death to purge Leningrad of former oppositionists and members of the old ruling and professional classes - and also to appoint one of the rising generation of Stalinist cadres, Andrei Zhdanov, as ruler of the USSR's second city.

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[bhshootingstar]

Salute to those hard people!

[stuky800]

FUCCKKKK STALIN !!!

[rancidfan39]

Besides, even if Stalin did close the evacuation, it was out of necessity, because otherwise Hitler would have been able to advance on stalingrad, and everyone would have been killed by the Nazism's. ( And he did eventually relent anyway)

Too quote wikipedia "514,000 city inhabitants, 35,000 wounded soldiers" where liberated in the road of life. Even if it did have to be temporarily closed (because of German military pressure).

Stop blaming Stalin!!

IT WAS HITLERS FAULT!!!!

[rancidfan39]

Hey!

How can all you people type "fuck stalin"???

It was Hitler, not Stalin who was placing Stalingrad under siege. It was the soviet governments that finally liberated Stalingrad, it was the soviets who evacuated 400 000 people (mainly women and children) and it was the soviets who had too risk their lives in carrying what little supplies their where across the "road of life". (it was the only available road to Stalingrad)

THESE ATROCITIES WHERE THANKS TO HITLER NOT STALIN.

[allahBurpsCum]

To think there are human beings (ignorant swine it more like it) dumb enough to think Stalin was a great leader until this day. That is as sickening as all the death from Stalin, Hitler and the war.

[RioGiovanni]

@moronchicken Go troll elsewhere faggot.

[NormanLowell]

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[Ilikenuman]

a human corpse has nutrients in it.

listen, mate. if you and me were stranded on a desert island i died first, i would give you permission to do the unthinkable and eat my corpse. i expect the same curtesy back

[ManicDepressive101]

It is you, but it makes since for an atheist

[stuky800]

Stalin was the real murderer, Hitler was a pussycat in comparison with him, but he lost the war and he becamed the n.1 world murder!

[CocodriloNYC]

lol