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| Velikaya Chistka (Великая чистка); The Great Purge | |
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| Nentsia | 22 Oct 2010, 11:09 PM Post #11 |
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Hell's railway station, Barkutsk At the Barkutsk Railway station, 34 000 people were waiting for their trains. Every hour, 200 more people arrived by boat in Barkutsk. Boats departing from Parundor-Nentsia brought ''enemies'' of the Empire to the Northern-Nentsia, Barkutsk. From there, trains would transport them to Berozavotsk, from where they were deported to the Katorga camps. Thousands of fathers, brothers, sons, wives and daughters were waiting in the freezing temperature at the train that would take them to hell. Without food, without water or extra clothes - thousands waited and waited. UVB officers were standing on guard, enjoying a bottle of vodka or hot coffee together. Occasionally, a group of sadistic UVB officers picked out one of the prisoners, dragging him to an office where he would be beaten. The aim was to make his wife beg for mercy for her husband. The UVB officers would then make the wife sell her body in exchange for mercy. The ferries that brought the prisoners to Barkutsk, were completely full. Sometimes, panic erupted on board when they were in the middle of the sea. It happened more than sometimes that UVB officers threw out half of the prisoners, right in the icecold sea. The prisoners came from all over Nentsia. Muslims from the south, jews from the east, communists, factory workers, journalists, students, teachers - all of the perceived enemies of the Empire were to be deported or executed. It did not matter who, just all groups within society that had the potential of being against the current government - were to be purged by the UVB and the ISB. A muslim was not an Orthodox Christian, and thus did not support the Nentsian state ideology and was an enemy of the Empire. Muslims were to be purged away. The same for Jews. All communists and republicans are against the monarchy, and thus not loyal to Tsar Alexander the Great. All communists and republicans are enemies of the Empire, and must be exterminated. All trade unionists, social democrats and liberals are internationalists and against the state with their civil rights, and thus against the Nentsian nationality, stability and unity. All trade unionists, social democrats and liberals are enemies of the Empire, and must be executed without mercy. A train arrived at the Barkutsk railway station. Armed UVB troops wearing brown-greyish uniforms and various weapons began to push the prisoners like cattle into the trains. Women were crushed to death under the masses, or in the trains that were packed. After exactly five minutes, the train doors closed and the train left. Dozens were not in the train yet, and fell on the railway track as the train drove away. Those who fell on the track, were immediately and mercilessly shot by the UVB officers. The remaining thousands of prisoners that were still on the railway platform, had to wait for the next train. If they had bad luck, they would have to wait a day and night before they finally got in a train to hell. Inside the train, the people had to stand. The trip would take two days. But if they had bad luck, a blizzard might delay that trip for another two days. Many died on the trip, by a lack of water, or killed by others for their shoes and extra clothes. On board of the train, there were also pregnant women. The UVB followed a ''no-mercy'' policy, and so there was no mercy for pregnant women either. On board of the train, there were some unborn human beings that were already on their way to hell before they even spent a minute on earth. All over Nentsia, the resistances against the government carried on. In several cities and rural communities, people had armed themselves and revolted. But their militias were no match for the ISB troops. And even if such a militia did manage to get some military success, the government sent the KGR (Counter-terror Response Unit) to neutralize the militias. After such local rebellions were suppressed, the ISB was ordered to execute the entire community - a message to other subversive groups. In Vladimirsk, the opposition parties were still not banned by the government. The opposition leaders were still not arrested. But they didn't dare to leave their houses anymore. They didn't dare to speak out against Federovists and their state terror. The opposition leaders hoped that if they remained calm and silent, they might be spared by Yermolayev and Tsar Alexander. The leader of the Communist Party, Aleksandr Leonidov was preparing to flee from Nentsia. He knew that the UVB would soon be on his doorstep to arrest him for a show trial. Over 56 000 people in Nentsia were trying to flee the country. But the Commissar of Transport, Rurik Oleniyev, was ordered by Supreme Commissar Yermolayev to close the borders to prohibit all Nentsians from leaving the country. Yermolayev presented this as a meassure to let no enemies of the Empire escape their fate. All those who tried to escape the country despite the ban on leaving the country were arrested by the Pogranichnaya (border guard), and interrogated. Many were found guilty of treason to the Empire, based on confessions made after hours of torture. The traitors of the Empire were then deported to the Katorga camps in Berozavotsk. |
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| Nentsia | 24 Oct 2010, 10:18 AM Post #12 |
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UVB National Bureau - Vladimirsk At the head bureau of the UVB, it was a busy day. This bureau was responsible for the UVB administration at national level, responsible for passing through decrees of the government and such. The bureau was led by General Commissar 1st Rank Vladimir Denisovsky. Today, and in the past days, Denisovsky was a stressed man. Today all the lists of deportations and executions had to delivered by the local and regional UVB bureaus at this national bureau. Opekushin wanted to show the results of the purges to Supreme Commissar Yermolayev, and if the numbers were not right, Denisovsky could be accused of undermining Nentsian state policy. Denisovsky would be executed, like the thousands he had executed before. But Denisovsky didn't have to worry a single moment. As he watched the files coming in, he noticed the purges were being carried out in excess. Entire regions of Nentsia were being depopulated by UVB troops after suppressing strikes and rebellions. The call upon the people's loyalty to join the ''war against enemies of the Empire'' had led to thousands of people reporting about their neighbours to the local authorities. As there was a no-mercy policy in effect, the accusations were never investigated or something. The accused were immediately taken to a local interrogation cellar, where they were tortured to make a confession. The local UVB officer then decided whether he would execute or deport the prisoners. Hundreds of people were reported every day, most of them were sent to the Katorga camps, some were executed. One was liberated by his rebel friends, but later killed anyways when the rebellion was suppressed. The files that were sent in, showed that more than 200 000 people between 49 and 50AE had been sent to the Katorga, but more than 88 000 of them had already died - most by execution. Denisovsky was pretty shocked by this. The prisoners in the Katorga were there to work, not to be executed. For example, nearly 30 000 Germanian immigrants were deported to the Katorga, to be executed two months later. That was a waste of effort. Denisovsky immediately sent a decree to the Katorga camps to stop the executions immediately. There was no point in deporting prisoners all the way to Berozavotsk, to have them executed there. But the executions outside the camps had to go on, faster and more. In the first months of 50AE alone, nearly 70 000 people were executed by UVB troops. Denisovsky sent the exact numbers of deportations, deaths and executions to the Commissariat for Internal Affairs. Two days later, he received a letter from Commissar Opekushin. ''(...)Your work is sublime, comrade commissar Denisovsky. But we are not there yet. There are still many enemies left in the Empire. We want you to continue the merciless war against our enemies. From now on, every citizen may be brutally interrogated so that they will even report their own family if necessary. Continue with the repression of all groups that could be against us - and show everybody what we do with our enemies.'' - taken from the letter of Ivan Opekushin. Denisovsky sent the orders immediately to the regional and local bureaus. In the next weeks, this resulted in terrible acts carried out by the UVB troops. UVB troops randomly raided homes, and arrested all who were present. The subjects were taken to a local shed, cellar or farm where they would be skinned, boiled or crucified. Sometimes, UVB troops would attach an iron tube to the torso of a bound victim and insert a rat into the other end which was then closed off with wire netting. The tube was then held over a flame until the rat began gnawing through the victim's guts in an effort to escape. The subjects were forced to report opponents of the Empire to the UVB. Many people just gave all the names that came up in their mind, resulting in the arrests of thousands more people. The ones who were tortured were often executed after they had given enough names. Their heavily mutilated bodies were dumped on a public spot in the community or city, left to rot out in the open. A sign was placed next to the body: ''I helped enemies of the Empire''. In Zjemblazny, workers went on strike against the government. Zjemblazny was a city that had expierenced very little of the nationwide purges. But that soon changed. UVB troops arrived and opened fire at the workers, hundreds died. In the next days that followed, nearly 5000 randomly picked workers in Zjemblazny were arrested and executed at the city square, as saboteurs of the Empire. Their bodies were left to rot for four days. When the corpses were removed, the ground was covered under a crust of human fat and old blood. State terror in Nentsia was getting worse and worse. |
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| Nentsia | 27 Oct 2010, 03:32 PM Post #13 |
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A U T O C R A C Y Pravoslavie, Samoderzhavie y Narodnost One could wander endlessly through the deserted villages, the rural communities of Nentsia. Dozens of such villages had been depopulated since the great purge. The wooden Izba houses were abbandoned, dogs were wandering through the snow, looking for anything to eat. No human being was there, they had all been taken to the Katorga in Berozavotsk.... Thousands of kilometers away from there, in the middle of a land area covered in snow - there were people marching. They were dressed in Telogreikas (a type of winter body warmer) and they wore warm Valenki boots. They marched, slowly and without hope - their minds only thinking about their misery. They marched from watch tower to watch tower, where Nentsian UVB Gvardeyichy troops were standing on guard, in their grey greatcoats and traditional ushanka hats with UVB insignia.... In Vladimirsk, thousands of kilometers to the south, Sergey Yermolayev and the Federovist Party of Nentsia had decided that the Federovist Party was the national party of Nentsia, and that all Nentsians, loyal to Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality, should unite and follow the lead of the Federovist Party, the Supreme Commissar and the Tsar. ![]() At a large Federovist Party Congress, the Nentsian constitution was rewritten by Sergey Yermolayev. It was the 50AE Nentsian Constitution. In that new constitution, article 3 said this: The Nentsian Federovist Party and the Tsar form the leading and guiding force of the Nentsian society and the nucleus of its political system, of all state organizations and public organizations. The Nentsian 50AE Constitution granted the Federovist Party all power, claiming that the Federovist Party is the only Nentsian political institution which upholds the state ideology and which has only national interests at heart. All party members at the congress voted AYE. A few days later, all members of the Duma for opposition parties arrested. All 117 opposition members. This caused spontaneous rebellions throughout Nentsia, but the rebellions were crushed by the Nentsian military. After such rebellions, UVB troops would depopulate the entire rebel region to make sure there was no one left to rebel again. The men were thrown in the rivers, hanged, impaled or simply shot. The women and children were raped. The women were then deported to the Katorgas as traitors of the Empire, the children sent to the orphanage. With UVB Order No. 00473, Sergey Yermolayev personally ordered the UVB to remove all Communists from the Nentsian society. There were roughly 2 million people in Nentsia, registrated as official member of the communist party. In the months that would follow, UVB troops came to arrest them. The suspected communists were tortured to report other communists who weren't registrated. After such cruel torture sessions, the victims would simply sum up every name that entered their minds. Vladimir Denisovsky wrote: ''We need more camps. With the orders of the Supreme Commissar, there are millions of new potential prisoners in Nentsia. We have been given one year to arrest the majority of all registrated communists. Ivan Opekushin told me that the communists form perfect targets to be executed in public. Their blood will mark the success of our merciless campaign against all opponents of the Empire.'' UVB troops set Communist Party buildings on fire, and in the cities, mass arrests were carried out at night. Each UVB city bureau was given a list of registrated communists that lived in their jurisdiction; the list had to be cleared within months. Everyday, UVB troops were arresting as many registrated communists as they could, wives and children were arrested as well. In some cities, thousands of communists were taken to a public spot, lined up and executed. The corpses were left to rot for days. The arrests were so many, that the government troops didn't even have enough space to keep the prisoners, while waiting for the trains to take them to the north. Sometimes, a UVB officer decided to just shoot every prisoner he hadn't got any space for. In other places, UVB troops let the prisoners sleep outside in the cold, surrounded by barbed wire. The prisoners were poured over with water by the guards, so that they became living ice statues. The horrors conducted by the UVB and also the ISB, many of their agents and troops ended up with psychopathic disorders. They were traumatized, or they became psychotic. Many hardened themselves to the executions by heavy drinking and drug use. Others completely collapsed under their psychological problems and were forced to resign from the UVB or ISB. By now, more than half a million Nentsians had become a victim of the Great Terror campaign of Yermolayev and Tsar Alexander. That is after one full year of state terror. There were many more years to come. |
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| Nentsia | 29 Oct 2010, 02:31 PM Post #14 |
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YERMOLAYEVSHCHINA! Ермолаевщина! Sergey Ipatyevich Yermolayev sent a letter to Ivan Opekushin, the man responsible for massive purges throughout Nentsia. With the new constitution in place, it was time to purge the bureaucratic elite of Nentsia, as well as the military. The lists were already made; the lists containing the names of influential bureaucrats that needed to be eliminated. Exactly two days later, Commissar Ivan Opekushin arrested dozens of influential bureaucrats to have them stand trial for crimes against the Empire. Show trials. Gavril Nazimko [represented the opposition within the Federovist Party to the terror campaigns], Aleksandr Leonidov [leader of the Nentsian Communist Party], Mikhail Alexeev [SDRP leader], Yelena Novikova [LDPPE leader], Mikhail Vyodushenkov [Marshall of the Nentsian Tsardom], Gennady Marzhakov [Supreme Commander of the Imperatorskaya Armiya], Aleksey Lyuchev [Admiral of the Voyenno-Morskih Sil], Volodya Kazimirov [Marshal of the Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily] and 42 other politicians, bureaucrats and officers were arrested by decree. The political prisoners were subjected to two weeks of intense torture in the Lalykin Prison Facility, the main torture facility of the Directorate of Internal Security (UVB). Many bureaucrats that were not arrested began to believe that they were spared by Yermolayevs terror, as they were not arrested while the bureaucratic purge had begun. But that was a myth. International pressure upon Nentsia began to grow. Tsar Alexander himself was preparing to oust Yermolayev and the current elite to deliver them to the CoN. In Nentsia, everybody was replacable. This way, the Tsar could restore some of the Nentsian reputation, while basically keeping the system as it is. Tsar Alexander was however, not sure if he should do this. Yermolayev was an exceptional manager. This man was capable of building a new Nentsia. His means were controversial, but they justified the ends in Nentsia - Federovist Nentsia. At the first Show Trial, Admiral Aleksey Lyuchev had to stand trial before the Imperial High Tribunal. The man appeared in good condition, but the people in the courtroom could not see that his legs were boiled in hot water during the torture sessions. Lyuchev's wife had been raped several times before his eyes, as part of his torture. In the court, Lyuchev was accused of having anti-Tsarist sympathies, due to his long service under both Communist and Liberal-Democratic regimes. Lyuchev was also accused of not being unconditionally loyal to the State Ideology, which was treason to the Empire. The Nentsian state ideology was seen as the only doctrine that is 100% loyal and devoted to the Nentsian Empire. All other ideologies such as communism, social democracy and liberalism are seen as unloyal to the Empire. During the trial, it was mostly about people proving their accusations against Lyuchev. Lyuchev's lawyer pleaded guilty, and Lyuchev himself was only allowed to say the words: I confess all my crimes. The trial was a show, a farce. Yermolayev continued with his plans for Nentsia. The economy would be reformed into a tight corporatist system, where state and oligarchs work together in building huge companies and corporations, that will serve the Empire well. Yermolayev has planned major privatizations of economic sectors. These sectors are to be dominated by a single enterprise that is owned by both major shareholders and the government. This way, the Nentsian state will fully benefit from profit driven businesses. Yermolayev is also making plans for increasing the military, and privatizing social services. Yermolayev announced in an assembly with the Supreme State Duma, that he will make the Empire an economic-military bloc in which the society serves to bring maximum economic growth and military development. That is the only way for Nentsia, according to Yermolayev, to have a glorious future. This is the Yermolayevshchina. |
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| Nentsia | 2 Nov 2010, 12:31 PM Post #15 |
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![]() UVB Order No. 00432 Issued by Commissar I.Y. Opekushin Signed by General Commissar 1st Rank V. Denisovsky ![]() ''All muslims are enemies of the Orthodox Church, the church of our Tsar dear father. The muslim community within Nentsia, counting over 1.5 million heads, is therefore declared to be an enemy of the Nentsian Empire, based on Article 39 of the Nentsian constitution about Enemies, Traitors and Saboteurs of the Nentsian Empire. Supreme Commissar Yermolayev has ordered Commissar Opekushin to issue a decree that will mercilessly combat the muslim enemies of the Tsar and the Nentsian Empire. All UVB troops in Nentsia are ordered to make lists containing the names of muslims in their jurisdiction. By next month, at least 200 000 muslims must have been eliminated. The standard punishment for muslims who confess they are muslims is 8 years service in the Katorga, muslims who refuse to admit they are muslims will be hanged and muslims who resist the Nentsian authorities must be executed as prisoners of war. UVB officers, gather your troops and good luck with UVB Order No. 00432!'' The following weeks, all over Nentsia, especially in the south where the muslim community was concentrated, armed UVB troops rounded up muslims and took them to the nearest prison facility. There, the men and women were brutally interrogated, tortured and raped in order to make them report more friends and relatives as ''muslims''. Before this UVB order, 100 000 muslims were already sent to the Katorga camps. In the following months, roughly 100 000 more were sent to the Katorgas. Once they arrived in the Katorga after traveling under very bad conditions, many died of malnutrition. That was because there wasn't enough food for the prisoners. The Katorga camps weren't prepared for so many new prisoners, certainly not a 100 000. Tens of thousands of muslims died in the first weeks in the Katorga camps. In Moshchasetia, a massacre took place. A group of 120 muslims tried to defend their village from the UVB troops. Their resistance was quickly crushed by the UVB reinforcements, the village was bombed for two consecutive weeks by the Nentsian VVS, the air force. All 4852 people died, there was nothing left of the village. In Volyagostan, the UVB set up a camp for a week. A week long, they collected all the women of the village. The women were sometimes raped, many were tortured. As the UVB officers skinned their bodies the women were asked where the muslims were. Most of them simply gave the names of their husbands and neighbours. The torture sessions carried on until all people of the town were reported as muslims. The women were sent for 7 years to the Katorga, as traitors of the Empire, but they first had give the UVB men some pleassures. The men of the town were all executed. All 21 000 men were kept imprisoned in a mosque. They were executed in groups of 20, in a courtyard not far from the mosque. But this didn't go fast enough, so it was eventually decided to just burn down the mosque with the remaining people inside it. The courtyard was transformed into a mass grave to get rid of the corpses. After that, the UVB left and reported to Commissar Denisovsky: ''No mercy. That is all I have to say about it. What town do I have to do next? I need to know, my men need to be kept busy. Otherwise they start thinking, and that would make my men psychopathic and traumatized. There is a serious problem among UVB troops and officers regarding trauma's and mental breakdowns. This week I have lost 14 more troops by suicide.'' Intellectuals in Nentsia have expressed their disgust of the massive repression of muslims in Nentsia. Although it were only a few intellectuals who expressed those opinions, many more got arrested. At first, Opekushin ordered for the arrests of the dissident intellectuals and their closest colleagues. But Yermolayev ordered that their entire circle had to be arrested; supporters, other intellectuals who might agree with them, friends, family, acquaintances - everybody who had some kind of relationship with the dissident intellectuals had to be arrested. After brutal interrogations, everybody confessed and more than 4000 intellectuals were sent for 5 years to the Katorga camps. The Nentsian Yermolayevshchina, the great purge, was reaching its peak. For how long could this continue? The endless mass arrests, the numerous massacres in the rural villages, the repressions in the cities and the streets - and Yermolayev who constantly wanted more deportations and more blood. More and more. It was never enough. If an UVB officer executed 50 trade unionists right on the spot in a factory, Yermolayev would ask the officer why he didn't kill all the workers in the factory. The Yermolayevshchina, while reaching its peak, was also reaching a stage of uncontrolled madness. The whole terror campaign which Yermolayev used to eliminate all possible opposition was becoming and excessive murderous campaign against his own population. Not a day went by without Yermolayev asking himself whether he should stop the terror campaign straight away. But Yermolayev continued the campaign, and even demanded more blood. He believed that if he could even frighten himself with his own state terrorism, only then the terror campaign was truly completed. Over time, hundreds of Federovist Party members had been placed under house arrest, expelled or even executed or deported. Yermolayev did not tolerate even the slightest opposition within the Federovist party. Yermolayev believed he could keep the Party under his control this way. His most loyal supporters held all the powerful positions within the party. But within the Federovist party, the fear of Yermolayev began to transform into aversion. Some influential members began to conspire against Yermolayev. Boris Bugayev, member of the General Committee of the Federovist Party, was always seen as the possible successor of Yermolayev. But Bugayev had a concurrent in the line of succession: Ivan Borisenko. Borisenko represented the hard-liners, the conservative wing of the party. Their loyalty to Yermolayev was unconditional. Bugayev represented the progressive wing of the Party, who wanted more transparancy and who were less supportive to the purges. Because of that, Yermolayev made Borisenko Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission for Party Discipline. Not only that, Borisenko was also, just like Bugayev, a member of the General Committee. Yermolayev had placed Borisenko higher in the party hierarchy. Bugayev was furious. But Bugayev had supporters in the General Committee. There would come a day when Bugayev and his followers could oust their opponents from the General Committee, including Borisenko. Therefore, Bugayev had approached Denis Zelenin. Zelenin was a member of the Presidium of the Federovist Party, the highest administrative body that controlled all technical aspects of the Party and that implemented Federovist policy on the country. Zelenin was also the Minister of Communication, propaganda. If Bugayev wanted to oust Borisenko from the General Committee, including several of his supporters, then he needed Zelenin's help as a minister and Presidium member to overrule Borisenko. But Borisenko remained very hard to oust from his positions. Zelenin, as member of the Presidium, had the power to manipulate all divisions of the Party. He could spread negative news about Borisenko, he could make party delegates vote against Yermolayev at a congress and Zelenin could make government organizations to reject Borisenko. The problem was that Borisenko had the ability to oust Zelenin and Bugayev as well. And Borisenko had the blessings of Yermolayev, the man greatly feared by the Central Board of the Federovist Party. Zelenin eventually decided to join the side of Bugayev, in secrecy. He began to spread propaganda, gently revealing mistakes and errors of Borisenko, making the man look like he is not worth the power he holds. Of course, Borisenko was indignant at the next meeting of the General Committee, and he demanded an explanation from the Presidium. Zelenin explained that he and the Presidium only wanted the best for Nentsia and the Party. Zelenin received support in the General Committee from Bugayev and his followers. Yermolayev and Borisenko didn't like it, but there was little they could do. Of course, Yermolayev could demand the removal of Zelenin and Bugayev and co, but then he needed to rid the party of their supporters as well. Yermolayev would make Borisenko too powerful if he eliminated all Borisenko's opponents. And Yermolayev didn't want Borisenko to become powerful enough to depose Yermolayev himself. It may sound complicated, and it is. The power struggle is growing within the Federovist Party. The stakes are high. |
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| Nentsia | 5 Nov 2010, 11:35 PM Post #16 |
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A New Military Command A few months ago, Yermolayev began the purge of his bureaucratic system, politicians and military commanders were arrested and put in show trials, before being executed. Among them were Gavril Nazimko [represented the opposition within the Federovist Party to the terror campaigns], Aleksandr Leonidov [leader of the Nentsian Communist Party], Mikhail Alexeev [SDRP leader], Yelena Novikova [LDPPE leader], Mikhail Vyodushenkov [Marshall of the Nentsian Tsardom], Gennady Marzhakov [Supreme Commander of the Imperatorskaya Armiya], Aleksey Lyuchev [Admiral of the Voyenno-Morskih Sil], Volodya Kazimirov [Marshal of the Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily] and 42 other politicians, bureaucrats and officers. Today, Yermolayev gave the order to Commissar Strashnev to appoint 35 new military commanders. The new commanders all had to be a member of the Federovist Party. Nikolay Pavlyushkevich was appointed as the new Marshal of the Air Force (VVS), Nikita Valchuk was appointed as Admiral of the Naval Forces (VMS), Fyodor Ennikeev was appointed as Commander of the Imperial Army and Anatoly Nosonovsky was appointed as commander-in-chief of the Nentsian armed forces. The military was given a new budget as well. Before, the annual budget was $119 billion. But since Voronevshchina was adopted, the military budget was raised to $129.6 billion. Yermolayev demanded that the Nentsian military would become one of most advanced and efficient of Renatia. In the rest of Nentsia, General Commissar Denisovsky did all he could to complete the lists that were given to him. Every month, dozens of lists came in telling him how many people he needed to arrest. Denisovsky gave the orders to local UVB bureaus, where local officers were told how many people they had to arrest, execute or torture. Every extra person that was arrested, tortured or arrested would result in a bonus for the officer. Of course, the UVB officers were not proud of what they were doing. They did not like to kill, torture and destroy families. But refusing the orders from Vladimirsk was desertion. Deserters were to be executed by a single shot in the back of the neck. There was not much of a choice than to follow orders. And many UVB officers became very fanatical when they could get a bonus with every extra person they executed, tortured or arrested. Many officers suffered from psychological traumas, and there was little psychological help for them. That resulted in officers becoming very aggressive towards their victims, turning them into sadistic psychopaths in an attempt to abreact. Every day, hundreds of UVB officers and guards committed suicide in Nentsia, as the posttraumatic stress became too much for them. Others went mad, or became alcoholics. The life of a UVB officer was not much more than going from village to village, arresting people randomly, torture them, execute them and do the same to their family and friends. A UVB officer from the Zelensk district wrote in his diary: ''411 yesterday, 736 the day before, 1866 last week, 3885 scheduled for this week - how long must we continue with this? The Tsar says this will make the Empire stronger. I doubt that. Young and fit men, vertile women, children, students - how can it be good for a country to kill all these people? I have no idea what I should do when this is over. I have lost pleassure in life. All I can think of is death. When I look at my hands, I see blood. When I laugh, I hear people crying inside my head. When I speak, I hear voices begging for mercy in my head. When I look in the mirror, I see my victims. When I breathe, I breathe the smell of rotting corpses. I am in Hell.'' OOC: Since 47AE I have been administrating the political repression in Nentsia. Deportations, deaths among the deported, massacres and mass executions, show trials and political assassinations have all be administered by me. The hole political repression in Nentsia began with a few political assinations, later the suppression of demonstrations resulting in bloodbaths and after that, the government justified the massive persecution of many groups in the society. The purge as described in this topic, is inspired on the Red Terror (1918-1922) of Vladimir Lenin, and I added some elements from Stalin's Great Purge (1936-1938). Why? I wanted to find out how it works - terror. I wanted to know how it is possible to killl at such as massive scale without having the entire population rise up against the government. A lot of what I described here, were actually Cheka/NKVD policy and methods. Letting rats eat through somebody's organs, making living ice-statues of prisoners, hanging, throwing people in the river and so on. The NKVD would execute a prisoner by shooting in the back of his neck. Just as lethal and quick as a headshot, but less blood and tissue flying around. For torture, victims were crucified, boiled alive or skinned. The Russian constitution officially allowed the ''repression'' and use of ''terror'' against enemies of the ''working classes''. What followed was a genocide committed against everybody with a bourgeois background: educated people, and higher. The Soviet Union made sure at the UN that the definition of ''genocide'' does not cover political cleansing. But a new word has been developed for socio-politically motivated genocide: Politicide. It is often said that it wasn't communism what caused the mass killings in the Soviet Union and in China. Many claim that marxism had nothing to do with mass terror. But Marxism in fact did approve all this. Karl Marx himself stated that revolutionary terror was the best means to win the class war that would erupt when the ruling classes were overthrown. And yes, in Russia counterrevolutionary forces led by former officers and nobles waged a war against Soviet rule. Lenin however, used the ''terror against the bourgoisie'' to repress all groups in society that opposed Soviet rule. Anarchist sailors, deserters from the military, religious, landowners (Kulaks), ethnic minorities, educated people, nobles, former military officers and even workers were persecuted. Later, Stalin added ''traitors of the motherland'' to that, which meant that all relatives, wives and children of convicted ''enemies of the proletariat'' were to be deported as well. As a result of the dictatorial rule by the Bolsheviks, their supporters turned against them. The sailors from Kronstadt who had helped taking over St Petersburg during the revolution of 1917, demanded free elections in 1921. It would become one of the most heroic rebellions against the Bolshevik dictatorship. All over Russia, workers were on strike. The Bolshevik revolution did not improve the position of the workers at all. In 1920, Lenin wrote to an officer in the Ural where strikes were going on: "I am surprised that you are taking the matter so lightly, and are not immediately executing large numbers of strikers for the crime of sabotage." - the words of a man who claims to represent the workers and peasants. The violent nature of Communism lies in the fact that it is no longer an economic answer (from Marx) to the failures of wild capitalism, but Marx and Lenin as well have developed the communist idea into a doctrine which is aimed at building an entirely new society. Building a new society, means that the old one must be destroyed completely. All that refers to the old society must be removed. Part of that process is eliminating that part of the population which does not fit in that society. The idea of building an entirely new society, can be found in communism, but also fascism and national socialism. The idea of creating this new society, through violence if necessary, is totalitarian. Everything is subjected to the creation of the new society, and everyone who opposes the new society must be exiled or killed. But Lenin and Stalin went further than only removing their political opponents. Both Stalin and Lenin analyzed the social groups within the society, and figured out which group might oppose communism. Religious, ethnic minorities, the nobolity, property owners, artists, military officers, the former bureaucratic elite and so on. Lenin, and especially Stalin, simply deported these groups as a whole to the Gulags. That way, all potential political subversives were simply gone. If a few factory workers went to strike, the Chekists/NKVD would simply round up all workers from the factory and execute them in public. You can imagine the fear that causes among the population. Today, there is little exact knowledge about how many people became a victim of the purges in Russia. Your average MacCarthyist American would probably say 30 – 60 million people. The Communists of today claim 700 000. The facts however, say something completely different. The number of victims of Lenin’s Cheka during the Red Terror, is unknown. That is because a civil war was going on at that time. We simply don’t know who was killed in action, killed as a prisoner of war, killed by White armies, or executed as political opponent by the Red army. Estimates range between 200 000 and 700 000. Under Stalin, roughly 2 million people were deported to the Gulags, the majority of them were serious criminals, but millions were political prisoners. According to the NKVD files, nearly 800 000 people were executed. That comes down to 1000 executions a day during Stalin’s Great Purge. More than 14 million people passed through the Gulag from 1929 to 1953. The estimated total number of those who died in imprisonment in 1930-1953 is 1.76 million, about half of which occurred between 1941-1943 following the German invasion. These numbers are huge. I tried to reach the same numbers in this thread, but I failed. After three years of severe political repression in Nentsia, a little more than 1 million Nentsians were deported to labor camps, of which 200 000 died. Another 200 000 people were killed in massacres and mass executions. That is nowhere near the scale applied by Stalin. If you think about it, you start to believe Stalin was actually trying to wipe out his own people. |
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