NKVD

Animal Farm is a political allegory concerning power about the Russian Revolution. At the beginning of “Animal Farm”, power was used to achieve great things. It brought all animals of Manor Farm together but after an initial influence of power, it began to destroy the community that they had worked together to form. This can be seen by the character development of Napoleon who is thought to potray Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union during the mid 1920’s. They were both leaders that abused

To define how Stalin’s methods in removing opposition is effective, compared to tsarist and other communist leaders, his methods of suppression alongside the tsars and other communists are assessed to see how successful they were in defeating opposition without evoking further opposition in their regimes. Therefore, Stalin’s reforms of collectivisation, Five-Year-Plans, Gulags, and labour camps etc. have been successful in appeasing opposition with his increased and radicalized input of terror compared

Commissariat of Internal Affairs, or NKVD, was a law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party, which was closely associated with the secret police() during the times of Joseph Stalin. This caused many events of domestic executions and political repression as a response from the Soviet state due to uprisings from enemies of the state(). The NKVD was created in 1918, but was officially named the NKVD in 1922 after the end of the civil war. The NKVD followed the first Soviet Union

Who was more Crazed: Stalin or Hitler?      The obviously more crazed man was Joseph Stalin. Stalin was more crazed because over his time and rule, he killed millions upon millions more people that Hitler. Joseph Stalin is also more crazed because he did not kill other people he was racist against, but simply because he wanted to kill. The book Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives, states " Adolf Hitler's actions can not even be compared to the monstrous actions of Joseph

In the evening an NKVD official march into Lina home, and order her and her family to pack their things within twenty minutes. Elena Lina mother, shouts to Lina and Jonas Lina younger brother, to backup their things, and grab warm jackets. Unexpected mother started to smack her crystal and china, which the NKVD saw as soviet property. Once walking out the door Lina and her family was forced to step inside in the truck full of other people. Once the truck started to move a bald man jumped out of the

Both the NKVD and the townsfolk are cruel and ruthless. On the last page of The Lottery it states, "The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles." The townsfolk are preparing to throw stones at a women who was randomly selected. Everyone even young children participate in this brutal and cruel tradition. Even Tessie Hutchinson, the woman being stoned, child participated in throwing rocks at her. Page 124 of Between Shades of Gray it says, "We had dug a pit

memorial and museum site) Soviet Special Camp (1945-1950) The end of WWII was not the end of Sachsenhausen' life. Three months after the end of the war and the liberation of Europe from the National Socialist rule, the Soviet secret service, the NKVD, moved Special Camp No.7 into the location of the former Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen. Most of the buildings, except for the crematorium and extermination facilities, were used for the same purposes as before. The camp was then used for

The NKVD was a law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union which was directly related with the secret Soviet police. It was formed to control the militia(police), criminal investigation departments, firefighters, internal troops, and prison guards. The main function of the NKVD was to protect the state security of the Soviet Union. This was done by kidnapping, murdering, and by massive political repression. The NKVD was run by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who was responsible for the deaths of

characters Lina, Elena, Jonas, and Andrius and others are tortured by the NKVD and experience brutal conditions of starvation, hard labor, and cold weather. Fifteen year old Lina overcame her fear with the hope and courage she established over time. As Lina travels this gruesome voyage, she meets a guy that she gains feelings for, named Andrius. The NKVD beat Andrius for getting caught looking for his dad. Even though the NKVD officers were standing four cars away, Lina was determined to get Andrius

rich with 25 acres or more as the “Kulaks” (“NKVD”). Second is Dehumanization. When the, prisoners were at the gulags they were worked like dogs. An average prisoner would work 12-14 hours a day in the freezing cold temperatures (“Hillinger”). Third is Organization. Stalin made the NKVD to use to his advantage against anyone who opposed him (“NKVD”). Fourth is Polarization. Stalin ordered the NKVD to kill leaders of his past party the Bolsheviks (“NKVD”). He also ordered for the killing of military