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

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

3. 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…

4. 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.

5. Josef Stalin

6. 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

7. Tsar Nicholas II and his family

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

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

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

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. Political Joke
Michael Ignatieff, 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. Michael Ignatieff 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!