Stalin died on March 5, 1953, in the thick of the concocted Doctors Plot, saving many innocent lives from his further tyranny, though some of the terror that he was able to afflict, lingered for decades, and may still be active in the methodology, if not specific ideology, he instituted upon the multinational population of USSR, that is continued by its successor Russian Federation.
This post is not celebrating the legacy of Stalin. My intent is to underscore the damages.
During Stalin’s reign as GenSec of the Communist Party of the USSR (1922-1952) and The Chairman of the Presidium of USSR Ministers (1941-1953), it has been estimated that at a minimum 11,000,000 to 20,000,000 of civilians have been eliminated in various actions of population regime compliance and control, including those in the vast range of GULAG, those who perished in famines of Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia, those who were forcibly resettled to the horrible climes, and so on. And that’s only in the Soviet Union. Countries of the “Eastern Bloc” and civilian population of all wars that were fought outside of the USSRwere not added into these unsurmountable death numbers.
Stalin and his henchmen spared no evil to achieve their self-serving goals of establishing Communist Party regime, world domination and enrichment while pretending to do everything in the interest of “service to the public” and “for the public good” and living exemplary lives. Growing up in the post-Stalin USSR, after his name and legacy were completely redacted out of all texts and history books and the cult of his personality was denounced with the same vigor as it had been enforced whilst Stalin ruled, I know the undeniable power of brainwashing from my mom, who had cried on this day in 1953, and for whom it took years to acknowledge the truth. I am therefore able to openly see the many similarities that are so eerily present in some of today’s world leaders and other world stage players to those of Stalin, his Party cronies and other useful idiots. I am able to distinctly understand the facts and fibs that surround our times and work my very best to point the glaring deceptions most of the willingly remaining duped population refuses to see.
In Stalin’s case, what makes it somewhat better is how he died, most likely poised by someone in his closest circle. The guards having been called off by Stalin himself the evening before. I wonder if when he lay there dying for those
many hours, he felt any remorse or guilt – or if, like a true revolutionary, he considered his own murder a sacrifice worthy of establishing worldwide Communism…
Whatever it was, I understand now that his death was a slow agony…too bad it did not linger for a few more days. All evidence of his “removal” was then covered up, like Epstein’s now, and Stalin’s death was given a natural cause. The nation came out to mourn him, even though secretly, most of it rejoiced.
Sic transit gloria mundi…