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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a French philosopher, unexpectedly justified Stalin's and subsequently Mao's purges. Sartre believed that quiet was the appropriate response to the atrocities of the gulags: "It was not our job to write about the Soviet work camps.". [([[https://slate.com/culture/2003/09/la-double-vie-of-jean-paul-sartre.html|Slate]])] | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a French philosopher, unexpectedly justified Stalin's and subsequently Mao's purges. Sartre believed that quiet was the appropriate response to the atrocities of the gulags: "It was not our job to write about the Soviet work camps.". [([[https://slate.com/culture/2003/09/la-double-vie-of-jean-paul-sartre.html|Slate]])] |
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| ===== Ilya Ivanov ===== |
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| Stalin tasked head scientist Ilya Ivanov with developing a hybrid ape-man with "immense muscle but an undeveloped intellect." Ivanov was imprisoned and banished to Kazakhstan because he was unable to deliver. [([[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926701-000-blasts-from-the-past-the-soviet-ape-man-scandal/|New Scientist]])] |
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| ===== Hit By Carriage ===== |
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| Stalin was struck twice by a horse-drawn carriage as a toddler, causing lasting injury to his left arm. Because of this injuries, he was unable to fight in WWI, where he would have most certainly died. [([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dqlm1v/til_stalin_was_hit_by_a_horsedrawn_carriage_twice/|Reddit]])] |
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| ===== Fan Of Movies ===== |
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| Stalin was a big fan of movies, especially westerns. Stalin agreed with Lenin when he remarked, "Cinema is the most significant of the arts". [([[https://www.cliomuse.com/stalin-and-the-movies.html|Cliomuse]])] |
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| ===== Alexander Solzhenitsyn ===== |
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| In his book The Gulag Archipelago, Gulag veteran Alexander Solzhenitsyn chronicled Stalin's prison camps. He said that a prisoner might be tossed into a "bedbug infected cage" at any time, when swarms of ravenous parasites would swarm a victim. A prisoner would initially reject the parasites, but after a few hours, he would get weak and allow the parasites to "take his blood without a whimper". [([[https://arweave.net/vvIv4JPGvMVVLYxkKsR8xfZ3uWOYI47GR2-eTf4V65M|Arweave]])] |
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| ===== Man Of Steel ===== |
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| Josef Djhugashvili changed his name to Stalin, which means "man of steel," in 1910. [([[https://inetstz.com/site/5a20c6-stalin-man-of-steel|inetstz]])] |
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| ===== Disregard For Human Life ===== |
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| Stalin had a complete contempt for human life, as evidenced by the following quote: "Death is the solution to all problems." "No man — no problem." [([[https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/joseph_stalin_388302|Brainyquote]])] |
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| ===== Death For Deserters And Cowards ===== |
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| During World War II, Stalin directed Red Army leaders to kill deserters and men who fled the battlefield. More than 150,000 men were killed in action between 1941 and 1942. [([[https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-should-know-about-wwiis-eastern-front|History]])] |
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| ===== Doctor's Plot ===== |
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| Stalin invented the Doctor's Plot in 1952, and jailed hundreds of physicians and medical professionals, predominantly Jews, as part of it. Ironically, when Stalin suffered a stroke and died, all of the top physicians were imprisoned. [([[https://www.britannica.com/event/Doctors-Plot|Britannica]])] |