#yehzov

[stillunusual]

Stanisław Gołaszewski was an ethnic Polish citizen of the USSR who was working as a scientist in Tomsk when he was arrested and sentenced to death during the 1937-38 "Polish Operation" of the NKVD, which was the largest of Stalin's purges in the 1930s.

He was executed on 29th January 1938.

Gołaszewski was just one of 111,000 people murdered in Stalin's Soviet Union as a result of NKVD Order Number 00485, mostly for the heinous crime of doing nothing wrong while being Polish or merely having a Polish-sounding name.

[aflo]

what if they never edited yehzov out of that photo with stalin. what if they took two pictures, one with and one without him, and stalin just didn't move an inch. like a statue

[minisoc]

I think it's important to emphasise the difference Stalin from Yehzov and the nkvd. So while I don't agree with any of the responses you've gotten from people I think "Socialist nations didn’t tend to punish people without reason." might be too simple of an opinon regarding the complexity of states and esp revolutionary states. Also there's no 'literal cold hard primary documentation' of genocide so maybe they are confused and think you're denying the soviet famine? maybe not tho just a thougt

I don't mean that literally no misjudgment ever occurred though I may have been playing with that idea for exaggeration. But I think there's a real misunderstanding that socialist nations must have the same kind of systemic use of prisons as collective punishment and mechanism of control that other nations do. Surely yezhov represents a travesty of injustice in the Soviet system but that's hardly attributable to the USSR as a whole.

[jasonmomoaisgod]

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