Stalin greatly feared older members of the party too as they knew the truth of Stalin’s rise to power and what Lenin’s testament contained which would have ruined Stalin’s career. Under Yagoda’s influence of suggesting communists questioned Stalin, his paranoia further developed and caused the emergence of the great terror. Undoubtedly Stalin felt he had to perform the mass purges because of his paranoia that he would be removed from power. As Stalin was in control this must be the main cause of the great terror as his desire to remain in power was the drive for allowing the great terror to happen. The Congress of victors was a short term cause of the great terror and only added to the main cause of Stalin’s paranoia.
When the world thinks of interrogating they just go straight to torture, but when they craw away from that, there would be no enemies due because of their grudges toward countries. When using torture on suspects not only will it not work most of the time but it will mostly resolve in someone’s death. “President Obama has done the most important thing: reversing Bush's policy and declaring, as he did last week, that torture was unequivocally wrong” (Weisberg 1). Therefore using torture is just ruining the morale of countries especially the United States because we have rules. How come they can break the rules and other citizens can’t?
Dealing with political opponents of the Tsar was its main task. The Okhrana penetrated extremist groups, arrested suspects, ran its own prisons and operated agents in foreign countries to spy on the activities of Russian political exiles. This was important in the weaknesses of the opposition as it meant that the spread of liberal and reforming ideas were prevented as they could not spread them through the press due to the strict censorship which ultimately weakened the opposition as there was no way for them to get the Russian population to share their views. It was also important as without the Okhrana enforcing the law against opposition to the Tsar it would’ve been extremely easy for opposing political parties to stand against the Tsar. Therefore, to an
The purpose of the camp was to “concentrate” and hold the political officials so that they wouldn’t be a threat to the Nazi party. The elections were coming up, but many leaders of parties were arrested and only Hitler’s party was aloud to make speeches and gatherings. Germans had lost their freedom to protest, and those who opposed the Nazis were too frightened to resist. Hitler was playing into their fears, and slowly creating an anti-Jewish atmosphere. People were also out of work and desperate for change, and resorted to following Hitler blindly.
Similarly the Germans and the Jews during the Holocaust were also forced into this ‘kill or be killed’ attitude. No doubt there were some Germans who did not agree with Hitler’s regime, but were too scared to stand up for their beliefs and decided to inflict suffering in order to save themselves from the same fate. This inaction caused much pain and suffering to innocent victims. Inaction can be worse than action in some cases, as not stopping the atrocities during the Holocaust was worse than inflicting them, because the victims could not stand up and save themselves. Edmund Burke epitomes this concept in a single quote, “All that is
As people state “to take a life when a life is lost is revenge, not justice”. This suggests there is no humanity in the area, as everyone just wants vengeance. While many argue this is where theory of deterrence comes in. But they should answer the main question, how are people able to amend by witnessing wrong? Instead it brutalises the society and increases murder rates.
This has introduced a whole new form of inhuman cruelty and society should wholeheartedly disagree with this type of treatment of human beings. First, Jacoby mistakenly presumes that flogging can keep juvenile delinquents’ from taking up a life as a career criminal if he was publicly horse-whipped. This is really a pathetic analysis. There are statics showing that gangs initiate new members to painful and humiliating beatings by older gang members. If flogging would come back in this century and be legalized like Jacoby presume it should be it would open the door for more violence and humiliation by anyone and everyone and most
Nothing good can come out of torture. For example, torturing terrorist suspects is a cruel thing to do. The torture is ineffective because the information obtained is unreliable. “Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop.” Said senator John McCain, survivor detainee from World War two. Torturing instigates hate, and a revenge cycle is born.
A truth which crosses national loyalties. Why are we letting the evil minded win? What would you rather be- hated because you ruin other people’s lives, or looked up to because you halted the evil minded in their tracks? We could stop this, we could speak out, but no we don’t because we are cowards. Who here has ever spoken out to stop something big?
Quoting the fifth commandment, "Thou shall not kill", he said it was sinful to kill innocent people on account of their unproductiveness. By the influence of this brave plan, Hitler had to order the closure of the institutions, though the "Euthanasia Operation” itself was secretly