WWII Russia

[Selena_Akariko]

Russia won a little of German! Could be worse :\

The main question I think would be what if Hitler would have won the war!

I do remember a document where a guy said that after a Stalin speach they all had to clap for more than half an hour like they clapped and clapped and clapped even if they were tired they had to keep clapping and of course one would be tired enought o stop clapping and then the police would take that man who stopped clapping first and arrest him!

That sounds like a true story. Stalin during his purges was absolutely crazy. People would disappear in the middle of the night and never be seen again. Little girls would go on trial even for plotting against Stalin and stuff like that I think.

True... Not sure about the rumor, but the arrests, absolutely true.

And then he chucked loads (millions) of people in the Gulags to die. He also made his people work like dogs for very little reward.

Make the reward 200 g of black bread (and not a fact that you'll get the whole of your share, kitchen steals), a bowl of porridge (again, kitchen steals), and 2 bowls of the stuff that can be hardly considered something even to be thrown away, let alone soup or anything of that sorts.

I knew that all from reading a book by one of the people who made it though all of this, "The Gulug Archipelago" by Alexander Soljenitsyn (though I'm unsure about how his name is spelled...) (Lib.Ru: Àëåêñàíäð Ñîëæåíèöûí Even if you know Russian, read with caution, it's VERY horrifying) And I know that Hitler borrowed some of his ideas of what to do with Jews and other prisoners from what Stalin did.

Selena