Stalin's Secret Police: II

When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russians gained unprecedented access to the KGB archives. This documentary series, produced in 1991-92 by Russian filmmakers, contained film and photos that had never been seen by the public before.

WARNING: Some images are disturbing.

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[BigBishop1]

who is the officer at 7:17 who looks like rodnet dangerfield?

[woodbineRed]

@BigBishop1 That's Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who was executed during Stalin's purge of Red Army officers.

[CrimesAgainstHumanit]

There were numerous accounts of war crimes by Soviet armed forces—plunder, the murder of civilians, and rape. In both Soviet and current Russian history books on the "Great patriotic war" these war crimes are rarely mentioned.

[woodbineRed]

@CrimesAgainstHumanit, Solzhenitsyn's autobiographical poem, "Prussian Nights", recounts many of the Red Army atrocities he witnessed as an officer, including the horrific sight of a child who had been raped to death. According to his account in "GULAG Archipelago", Red Army soldiers were actually encouraged to rape German women in places like Berlin and Danzig. Such were our "Allies".

[ehunter2]

Whenever I hear Communists or Leftists talk..they always excuse their failures by claiming that was all okay because their were "idealists" . Their hearts were in the right place etc. They have learned nothing ..about hearts, human nature or the nature of the Devil. Leftists are fools to the end.

[woodbineRed]

We have to be careful not to generalize--Jews in the NKVD were about as Jewish as Stalin was Christian, when it came to practicing the precepts of religion.

[BH206L3]

@woodbineRed He was a fine Officer and Soldier, the Russians would have bled less if he was around in 1941!

[adzopo]

could maybe use a little more glasnost and perestrooika these days

[June28July]

@franciszek8D

Plenty of evil people who accept God and his commandments.

[Waterflux]

Political mind-game at its best, courtesy of Stalin. Yeah ... create an environment of constant uncertainty. As for a private citizen, you are basically screwed if the NKVD can trace your background to having connections to Imperial Russian government or connections to 'old-timer' party or army leaders whom are marked by Stalin to be purged. Not meeting production quota or workplace accident can also cost your neck! :D

[WishCRUS4D3R]

@ehunter2 So you think Stalin represents 'the left'. Way to generalize lol

[whirmark]

@Monica1C3 yeah, the Bush/Blair "war on terror" wasn't a large step forward for the Geneva conventions. History is written by the victors etc

[KKislitsyna]

@ehunter2

I agree. What Stalin did was horrific and I'm sure he never felt any remorse for his actions.

[canuckleful]

@ehunter2 These are not the failures of Communism, they'rer the failures of humanity. That's like saying America's terror campaign is a failure of democracy. No. It's a failure of Bush/Carter/reagen etc.