It is important to think about the factors to which the workers were subject to under both the Tsars and the Communists. The conditions of the working class, their economic stance, political right and repression are all aspects that need to be considered in order to determine where the workers suffered most. Socially, the workers suffered bad working and living conditions under the communists. Living space by 1935 decreased from 8.5m² in 1905 to 5.8m² per person. The worker’s eating habits also became considerably worse, eating a fifth of the total amount of meat eaten in 1905.
And finally, the remaining Armenians were called from their home, thinking that they were going to be relocated, and marched to concentration camps in the middle of the dessert, where they would die from lack of food and water. In the end, western scholars predict that over 500,000 Armenians were killed in this massacre between the years
The campaign began with German Jews having their rights taken away, and ended with the death of six million Jews. This attempt to annihilate the Jewish population from Europe is seen as the biggest act of genocide in the world. In January 1945 before the Soviets arrived at Auschwitz, the SS marched 60,000 prisoners 36 miles away. This last march being Germany’s last attempt to exterminate the Jewish
About 42 percent of the amount of Agent Orange that we used was devoted to crop destruction; the products of hours of hard work were demolished within seconds. Agent Orange caused many people to starve to death. It has been reported, by the New York Times, that the herbicide destroyed 75 percent of the rice crops. Because people’s homes and crops were being destroyed, they were left homeless and hungry on the
According to Kessler, Stalin's original intention was to extract be the maximum amount of grain and other produce from the agricultural sectorwithout investment to increaseproductivity. If Stalin had been unaware of the people's suffering and dying in the Ukraine, then one could argue that the deaths were caused by failed policies rather than deliberate elimination. However, Stalin was in fact fully aware of what the pursuanceof his agricultural policies meant for peasantsin the affected areas,which means it is logical for his actionsto be considered genocidal. Hunger by Design is a re-telling of the history of Holodomor. The authors,armed with new, previously unavailablesources, provide the readerwith new information aswell
According to Youk Chhang, the Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia and also runs the Cambodia Tribunal Center website, claims that a couple days after they had taken control, “ ...the Khmer Rouge forced perhaps two million people in Phnom Penh and other cities into the countryside to undertake agricultural work “ (3). They went door-to-door, demanding people to gather their belongings and to evacuate. If the citizens did not comply, they were shot on the spot. In addition to the two million people that were captured, Youk Chhang also claimed that people panicked and wanted to stay alive but despite wanting that, thousands of people died because of the evacuation itself. Four years later, this massacre ended.
Stalin forced all peasants to leave their farms in order for them to be collectivized, and their suffering was horrendous. It is estimated that ten million peasants were dispossessed between 1929 and 1932, of whom around two or three million lost their lives. With the lost of a huge proportion of animal population, seven million people died of famine. Somewhere between 5-10 million kulaks were sent to the Gulags prison camps, where they would be tortured and some even killed. Evidently, an innumerous amount of people suffered from the collectivization, therefore Stalin failed in the social policy of collectivization.
Zachary Young Contemp. U.S History HIS 229 1) The main topic in the film we watched in Mondays’ class was The Great Famine in Russia in the early 1900’s. The Great Famine was detrimental to Russia. It killed millions of people, and could be said to have started with an economic crisis. 2) There were a few “major players” involved with this situation, but I think the main figure was President Herbert Hoover.
Five- Year Plans of the Soviets Launched in 1928 with the third and final one ending in 1938 with the interruption of World War II, the Five-Year Plans were put into place by Josef Stalin in the name of Communism. With this plan Stalin seized assets that included agricultural machinery to reorganize the economy. Although many were not directly affected, it would appear to these people Stalin was proactive in his leadership of the country. These efforts were disastrous for the Russian people living throughout the countryside with hundreds of thousands dying of starvation. Any persons who challenged or question Stalin’s tactics were sent to gulags or put to immediate death.
This stemmed from the fall of dictator Said Barre’s communist government. Within 2 months, 20,000 people were killed (Forrest 1). The fuel for this fire was inter-clan strife. The various clans were all vying to fill the vacuum formed by the fall of the government. Then, things got worst.