Josef Stalin Dictators and Genocide: The Most extreme consequence of bullying

Have you ever… Told a political joke? Laughed at one?

Article 58 Stalin’s LAW used to control Russians This law gave him total power to convict anyone of anything at his whim As a result Russians lived in terror…

Arrests under Article 58 A shepherd in a fit of anger swore at his cow –25 years in the gulags (prison) A deaf and dumb carpenter was working in a club laying floors, everything had been removed from the room and there was no where to hang his coat, so he hung it on a bust of Lenin –10 years Two children were wrestling in a barn at a collective farm and knocked a picture of Stalin off the wall. They got 10 years and their parents got 25 years for allegedly telling them to do it.

Josef Stalin

Russian Revolution 1917, Russia in the middle of World War One Poverty, discontent, massive deaths Tsar won’t do anything about it Violent revolution puts in a communist government. Tsar family executed

Tsar Nicholas II and his family

Communism System where EVERYTHING is owned by the government In theory it promises equality, power and everything you need in life In reality, a dictator ends up controlling everyone and everything – and the people are poor and powerless.

Stalin’s Paranoia!!!! Secret police KGB (called Men of Stone because they are driven by revenge and feel no emotion) Kills anyone he didn’t personally hire Kills those who helped him to get in power Kills anyone suspected of being against him

How Stalin Controls Torture to get people to confess to fake crimes (no sleep, beatings) Fake Trials Gulags (prisons) The Great Purge (or Great Terror) 1930s anyone considered against the revolution, Stalin or even just suspicious was arrested, tortured, deported, killed or sent to Gulags

Gulags Dirty Cold Sleep on cement floor One small meal a day 16 hours of straight labour

Reasons For Imprisonment Reading, seeing or discussing anything… Illegal Western Religious Counter- revolutionary

Mennonites Sect of Christianity Like the Amish Believe in Pacifism Stalin hated them because Had farms Religious Pacifists German

Pacifism Opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes Refusal to bear arms on moral or religious grounds Religious: Mennonites believe that Jesus was a pacifist

The Ukrainians Independent until Stalin took them over Fought Stalin for independence Angry, Stalin forced them to export all of their grain to Russia 5 million Ukrainians died of starvation

Stalin’s Death Doctor’s Plot: Doctors trying to poison Russians through medication Discredited doctors No one was brave enough to call a doctor when Stalin had a stroke in March of 1953 He died later that week.

Political Joke Stephane Dion, Jack Layton, and Stephen Harper were all on a private jet together. Stephen Harper gets an idea and says, “I’m going to throw this $100 dollar bill out the window and make one Canadian very happy. Stephane Dion doesn’t want to be outdone, so he says, “I’ll throw these two fifties out the window and make two Canadians really, really happy. Jack Layton decides to go with the flow and says “I’ll throw 100 loonies and make 100 Canadians really, really, really happy. At this point the pilot interrupts and says “If you don’t shut up, I’ll throw all 3 of you out the window and make 32 million Canadians really happy!