Stalin Regime facts

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Saskatchewan, Canada became the first jurisdiction in North America to recognize the Holodomor, in which ~7.5 million ethnic Ukrainians were starved under Stalin's Soviet regime

The repressive Stalin regime was reexamined by Soviet scholars and officials during Glasnost. The Soviet Union admitted that Stalin committed atrocities for the first time during Glasnost.

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1. No where was the Marshall Plan's effects more evident than in Germany. After Germany was partitioned into West and East and after Stalin refused to allow the new communist regimes of eastern Europe to participate in the Marshall Plan, the two Germanys developed quite differently. Thanks in part to the Marshall Plan, West Germany's economy was booming by the late 1950s while large parts of East Germany still looked like the war had just ended.

2. Fascist/Totalitarian regimes banned and even killed people who spoke Esperanto. They were sent to death during the Holocaust, and Stalin ordered their death, because "it was the language of spies", even though Stalin was fluent in it at a younger age.

3. In 1943, FDR demanded Germany's unconditional surrender over the objections of both Churchill and Stalin. This policy is widely credited for extending WWII and crippling the German resistance to Hitler's regime.

4. Over 10 million Ukrainians died from 1932-1933 because of the Stalin's regime and plan to destroy the Ukrainian nation.

5. More than 1.5 million people perished in the Kazakh famine during Stalin's regime, a quarter of its population. Prior to the famine, most Kazakhs practiced pastoral nomadism but afterwards, it forced Kazakhs to sedentarize and abandon the economic practice of nomadism

6. Between 1929 and 1932, Fred C. Koch - father of the Kock brothers - trained Bolshevik engineers and helped Stalin’s regime set up fifteen modern oil refineries in the Soviet Union.

7. Tito, the Yugoslav strongman, was arrested for sedition during WWI, found himself opposing both the Nazis and Stalin at different points in his life, openly threatened Stalin with assassination, and despite being communist actively aided anti-communist regimes such as that of Guatemala.

8. Some historians believe that Albert Camus, French existentialist philosopher and author of The Stranger, was killed by KGB agents for his criticism of Stalin's regime.

9. The leader of Russian Fascist Party gave himself up to Soviet authorities, believing that the regime under Joseph Stalin was evolving into a nationalist one. He was later tried, and executed in Lubyanka prison cellar.