In 1929, Stalin arrested over 5,000 educated Ukrainian people and they were either shot without trail or sent to prison camps in remote areas in Russia. The uneducated people were left in the Ukraine to fend for themselves. They had no one to tell them that Stalin was doing bad things. Stalin then stopped all imported food from getting in to the country and starved all the people of Ukraine. The children and elders were the weakest so they died very easily.
The Turks established Turkey and they planned to make their new nation ethnically pure. Massive amounts of Christians in Turkey were pushed out. They were forced to leave the lands they lived on for generations. These poor people had been in Asia Minor ever since the biblical times; but, were treated as if they were foreign scum. It is an unfortunate incident, only to become even more devastating to the Christian peoples.
Adolf Hitler once said "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" before he sent out troops to massacre men, women and children in Poland and Germany (Tran 1). This shows that because the Turks had gotten away with their actions at the time, Hitler felt that he could get away with it too. Thankfully, Hitler was wrong because Armenians are still around, spreading the word about their cause today, 97 years later. But how do these Armenians keep their 97 year old cause contemporary?
This threesome involved the country into WWI as the ally of Germany. Later in 1915 the same government outlined and put into effect a plan for the elimination of Armenians, estimated between two and three millions subjects. The plan was carried out in phases. In April 1915 people represented the Armenian religious, political, educational, and intellectual authority in the Western tradition, variously one thousand individuals, were jailed throughout the entire Empire, and consequently killed within few days. The next phase consisted of liquidation of the young male adult population, which mainly were recruits of the Turkish army.
After Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia, many Muslims had to seek refuge in Sarajevo after being forced out of there homes in the farm lands. Soon after this, Bosnian Serb forces that were supported by the Yugoslavian army began to bomb the city. Shortly after this a small part of the city was fully overtaken and the rest was subject to constant bombings, sniper fire, and people were being starved. After the war ended in 1996, the city was left in ruins with many destroyed buildings, over 10,000 casualties, and 50,000 injuries. Sarajevo was ruined place and the population of the city dropped significantly afterwards.The movie was very accurate in the way that it showed the people at the time.
Some of the features from his regime included the banning of all other Non-Communist parties, Cominform beginning a reign of terror having executed many political leaders and their supporters and having Russian officials control the government. This was a cause for uprising as if Rakoski had been a good leader in the first place, then there would have been no valid reason for the public to want to rebel. Stalin’s death in 1953 however was a massive cause for an uprising by the Hungarian public in 1956. When Stalin was alive, his style of government (Stalinism) was very oppressive and strict in regiment. He held extraordinary power that resulted in an estimated 20 million deaths during his reign.
The genocide I chose was the Armenian Genocide. This genocide was between the Armenians and the Turks. This was the first genocide of the 20th century. The word genocide did not exist in 1915 when the Armenians were being massacred and forced on death marches. The term “genocide” was made up by Raphael Lemkin in 1943.
Genocide is the crime of all crimes. The first example of genocide in the 20th century is the Armenian Genocide in Anatolia during World War I. The Armenian genocide was an attempt by the Ottoman Empire to exterminate the group of people they labeled as “Christians”, because of their religious beliefs. The Turk Nationalist’s goal was to get rid of all minorities to help them secure the nation under their complete control. Emerging from the 19th century as a struggling nation, losing the Balkan Wars, a national ideology was developed to blame others for the struggles of the Ottoman Empire.
Genocide: Horror Stories of the 20th Century Adolf Hitler to his Army commanders, August 22, 1939: "Thus for the time being I have sent to the East only my 'Death's Head Units' with the orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who still talks nowadays about the Armenians?" The term “genocide” is a combination of the Greek work “genos” meaning race, family or tribe and the Latin “cide”, which means killing. It was international law specialist Raphael Lemkin who coined the word and used it in print for the first time in his most notable work “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation - Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress (1944)”.
Putin and the Russians have suffered too many killings of their own people in the past. Now they want the whole of the 'Prime Minister's private army' wiped out, including Blake Johnson and Charles Ferguson. Somebody is after them: Blake, Harry Miller, his sister, Monica, Harry Salter and Billy. The only people spared are Roper and Dillon. After surviving a car bomb, Ferguson heads a desperate search to uncover the perpetrator.