During this bombing about 40 thousand people died, and 150 thousand injured. ... Over 91,000 men were captured and a further 150,000 had died during the siege. ... Over 91,000 men were captured and a further 150,000 had died during the siege. 2. People and Ideas In the summer of 1942, German forces pushed through the south-western front pushing back soviet troops. ...
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. ...
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov was born 1896 in a small village of Strelkova south of Moscow, Kaluga Province, and like an immense majority of the peasant population his family were desperately poor. He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was ab...
LENIN"S ROLE IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known famously as Lenin, died on the 21st of January in 1924 after having suffered many strokes. The sweeping state funeral followed in Moscow where his embalmed corpse was laid to rest in a mausoleum built outside the Kremlin's wa...
