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Just finished a fantastic book on Stalin terror and the Americans sent to the forced labor camps.
http://www.amazon.com/Forsaken-American-Tragedy-Stalins-Russia/dp/1594201684/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228419755&sr=1-1
Its a well researched book. And it is horrifying to read.
Just a tangential note. The persecution of kulaks began long before Stalin became Party Leader.
The Black Book of Communism: page 72
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"Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. The interests of the whole revolution demand such actions, for the final struggle with the kulaks has now begun. You must make an example of these people.
(1)Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers.
(2)Publish their names.
(3)Seize all their grain.
(4)Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram.
Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so. Reply saying you have received and carried out these instructions.
Yours, Lenin.
P.S. Find tougher people.
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People seem to forget or refuse to believe that the horror of the soviet regime began at its inception, with Lenin, not later on with Stalin. That telegram was sent to the Central Executive Committee of the Penza soviet in ~1918~.
BTW, the soviet footage is from "Stalin: Man of Steel." Look for the title on YouTube. It's all there.
I followed the TinyUrl link at the end of this video and clicked on my state. I'm sure that I'm now on another list somewhere in Washington!