1. Nazi Anti-Semitic Policies of 1939-1945
She died in 1907, just after she gave birth to Stalin's first son: Yakov. ... She is dead and with her have died my last warm feelings for all human beings." ... During the summer of 1918, Stalin's operations came under military attack by Cossacks and anti-Bolshevik forces from both the Caucasus and the Donets basin. ... Vasily, an alcoholic and a chronic failure at nearly everything, died in 1962. ...
But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... He seems to have been contemplating further anti-Semitic measures, and possibly a purge of his associates in the Party, when he died on March 5, 1953. ...
