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Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(3) Soviet manpower tactics and deadly assault: What is the "Ullah! on the battlefield

Kill after kill, one after another, they charge at you without fear of death. There is no greater fear than this.

The reckless assault is devastating, and the Soviet soldiers retreat, but to their surprise, the Soviet command now slaughters the retreating soldiers.

In the Soviet army, retreat was not an option. As I will show later, there was an ironclad order to fight to the death. Therefore, soldiers who withdrew and returned were killed as a violation of military regulations.

Soviet soldiers were overrun by Nazi soldiers, and if they fled, they would in turn be killed by Soviet troops.

Thus, the bodies of countless soldiers on the front lines were piled up one after another. With the cry of "Ullah! was the cry of the soldiers as they were being carried out by sea.

Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(2) Propaganda education to produce respectable Soviet people - The world of Orwell's "1984" is a reality.

Soviet propaganda education had definitely penetrated the younger generation. It is eerie to hear you say, "Twenty years of schooling and propaganda had a profound effect." Education and propaganda used such a long period of time to have a profound effect on people's worldview. People who received that education and those who did not see the world differently in the first place. This is a very important point.

However, no amount of propaganda education can completely control people. Each one of us has an inner desire to rebel, but we cannot live with it outwardly. However, we cannot live our lives if we reveal our feelings. That is why we have to change ourselves. That is right. This is exactly the world of Orwell's "1984.

Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(1) Why were there mass casualties in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union - War as a war of extermination and ideology?

The uniqueness of the German-Soviet war lies in the fact that it was a war of extermination and a battle of ideologies. Of course, it was fought for territorial issues and economic interests, but what the leadership used to motivate the soldiers fighting the war was the idea that "we are righteous and our enemies are subhuman and disgusting. We must exterminate the enemy" was the ideology.

This article looks at the reality of such a tragic war.

Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

C. Meridale, "Ivan's War: A Record of Red Army Soldiers 1939-45" - What did Soviet soldiers believe and why did they keep fighting?

The book reveals what each soldier went through and why he continued to fight.

Each one of them is an ordinary human being just like us.

However, the environment in which they were raised, the Soviet propaganda, the Nazi invasion, the scene of extreme violence that was so tragic, and the extreme circumstances of war that if they did not do it, they would be killed, motivated them.

A person has the potential to be anything. Depending on the circumstances, people can commit atrocities with impunity. Even if you think you are a good person, you never know what you might do. This book makes you think about that.

Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(7) Genshin's "Ojo-Yoshu" and the modern tour of hell - why we must learn about war, oppression, and genocide.

I started writing about Dostoevsky on this blog in 2020, and many of you may have wondered why I, a monk, am blogging about Dostoevsky.

But after a long time, I'm sure many of you have gotten used to it (laughs).

But what does it mean to write about Dostoevsky and world literature, but a recent blog about Soviet history and the Russo-German war?

In fact, recently I have been getting a lot of "It's getting hard to read about the war and all the mass killings. Why do you have to go that far?

In this article I will discuss my own answer to that question.

Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(6) Arendt's Theory of Totalitarianism and the Novels of Grossman, the Red Army Reporter: On his masterpiece discussing the Russo-German War and totalitarianism.

Arendt is famous for her talk about the Holocaust in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and "Eichmann in Yerusalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil". Hannah Arendt's name is still known all over the world when it comes to the Nazi Holocaust.

And the author Timothy Snyder counterpoints this Arendt with the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman. It was after reading Snyder's eulogy that I decided to read Grossman's work. Grossman is not well known in Japan, but here is a man who is an extraordinary figure in the history of the world. I highly recommend this author.

Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(4) Stalin using the media to counter people's dissatisfaction - this is how bad guys are made.

One of Stalin's political skills, the author says, was this "ability to create enemies. With this ability, he was able to put everything on the scapegoat, without having to bear responsibility for his own failures. In doing so, he was able to keep his own power base intact.

This could be done at any time and any place, not just by Stalin.

They create easy-to-understand bad guys and direct the public's hatred, anxiety, and fear toward them. In this way, they try to turn the public's attention away from the true nature of the problem.

History repeats itself in different forms.

If this is true, then what is the present repeating itself?

I feel the importance of thinking about such things every day.

Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(3) The Soviet Union's starvation policy holodomor and cover-up that killed over 4 million people in Ukraine

The famine in Ukraine was not caused by natural disasters, but by Stalin's policies.

The book goes into considerable detail about the hellish conditions of this disastrous famine, and spends an entire chapter following us through what was going on in Ukraine in the 1930s, and what the hell the Soviets were up to. Frankly, I could introduce this entire 50+ page description. I read this section with bated breath. It was so devastating that I was absolutely mortified.

Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(2) The Nazis and the Soviet Union, and the Covered-Up Crime Scene - History can only be grasped from a variety of perspectives.

Looking only at the history of one country does not give us a complete picture of the events that took place there.

This is a very important point. The author looks at the individual events of this period from many different angles. Instead of looking at historical events as dots, he looks at them as planes, that is, the complex world situation of the time.

While there are many works that study the Holocaust, few books discuss it from multiple perspectives in the context of the process of the struggle for hegemony with the Soviet Union and international affairs.

No matter how much knowledge you have about a single thing, that alone is not enough to understand history.

This is true not only for the genocide of Stalin and Hitler, but also for history, ideology, culture, religion, and everything else.

I think this point made by the author is a very important one.