Throughout history, there have been numerous evil people that have come into power.
Most of the time, they came to an untimely end.
With
a high number of excess deaths occurring under his rule, Stalin has been
labelled "one of the most notorious figures in history." These
deaths occurred as a result of collectivization, famine, terror campaigns,
disease, war and mortality rates in the Gulag. As the majority of excess deaths
under Stalin were not direct killings, the exact number of victims of Stalinism
is difficult to calculate due to lack of consensus among scholars on which
deaths can be attributed to the regime.
Official records reveal 799,455 documented executions in
the Soviet Union between 1921 and 1953; 681,692 of these were carried out
between 1937 and 1938, the years of the Great Purge. According to Michael Ellman, the best modern estimate for
the number of repression deaths during the Great Purge is
950,000–1.2 million, which includes executions, deaths in detention, or
soon after their release. In addition, while archival data shows that
1,053,829 perished in the Gulag from 1934 to 1953, the current historical
consensus is that of the 18 million people who passed through the Gulag
system from 1930 to 1953, between 1.5 and 1.7 million died as a result of
their incarceration. Historian and archival researcher Stephen G. Wheatcroft and
Michael Ellman attribute roughly 3 million deaths to the Stalinist regime,
including executions and deaths from criminal negligence. Wheatcroft and
historian R. W. Davies estimate
famine deaths at 5.5–6.5 million, while scholar Steven Rosefielde
gives a number of 8.7 million. In 2011, historian Timothy D. Snyder in 2011 summarized
modern data made after the opening of the Soviet archives in the 1990s and
states that Stalin's regime was responsible for 9 million deaths, with
6 million of these being deliberate killings. He further states the estimate
is far lower than the estimates of 20 million or above which were made
before access to the archives.
Historians continue to debate whether or not the 1932–33
Ukrainian famine, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor, should be
called a genocide. Twenty six countries officially recognize it
under the legal definition of genocide. In 2006, the
Ukrainian Parliament declared it to be such, and in 2010 a Ukrainian
court posthumously convicted Stalin, Lazar Kaganovich, Stanislav Kosior, and other Soviet leaders of
genocide. Popular
among some Ukrainian
nationalists is the idea that Stalin consciously organized the
famine to suppress national desires among the Ukrainian people. This
interpretation has been disputed by more recent historical studies. These
have articulated the view that while Stalin's policies contributed
significantly to the high mortality rate, there is no evidence that Stalin or
the Soviet government consciously engineered the famine. The idea that
this was a targeted attack on the Ukrainians is complicated by the widespread
suffering that also affected other Soviet peoples in the famine, including the
Russians. Within Ukraine, ethnic Poles and Bulgarians died in similar
proportions to ethnic Ukrainians. Despite any lack of clear intent on
Stalin's part, the historian Norman Naimark noted that although there
may not be sufficient "evidence to convict him in an international court
of justice as a genocidaire [...] that does not mean that the event itself
cannot be judged as genocide.
Stalin managed to live to be 74 years old. Although he
officially died of a cerebral hemorrhage, there is some evidence that he was actually
murdered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin
Slobodan Milosevic was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, from 1989 to 1992) and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000.
Although he managed to avoid assassination, he eventually died
in prison from a heart attack.
Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya from 1977 until 2011. During the 1970s and
1980s, Libya's unsuccessful border conflicts with Egypt and Chad, support for foreign militants, and alleged
responsibility for the Lockerbie
bombing in Scotland left it increasingly isolated on
the world stage. A particularly hostile relationship developed with the United
States, United Kingdom and Israel, resulting in the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya and United
Nations–imposed economic sanctions. From 1999, Gaddafi
shunned pan-Arabism and encouraged rapprochement with Western
nations and pan-Africanism; he was Chairperson of the African Union from 2009 to 2010. Amid the 2011 Arab Spring, protests against widespread corruption and unemployment
broke out in Eastern Libya. The situation descended into civil war, in which NATO intervened militarily on the side of the anti-Gaddafist National Transitional Council (NTC). The government was overthrown and Gaddafi
retreated to Sirte, only to be captured and killed by NTC militants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
For the last month of so, the world’s attention has been focused
on another murderous dictator.
His name is Vladimir Putin.
His ill-advised invasion of Ukraine has caused thousands of
deaths in the Ukraine, including many women and children, but he has also
caused Russia to suffer some horrific losses.
Ukrainian military intelligence is claiming that a group of Russian elites is plotting to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin and “restore economic ties” with the West, perhaps using his own signature methods of poisoning or an accident to accomplish the task.
“Poisoning,
sudden illness, accident – Russia’s elite is considering removing Putin,” the
Chief Directorate of Intelligence for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine posted
on Facebook Sunday. It is unknown whether
this is factual or propaganda to make Putin even more paranoid than he likely
already is.
There
were at least 40 documented attempts to assassinate & overthrow Hitler
between 1933 & 1945 without success. It will be equally tough to overthrow
Putin, who has ruled Russia for 20 years.
In a
sweeping and forceful speech concluding a four-day trip to Europe, President
Joe Biden cast the war in Ukraine on Saturday as part of an ongoing battle for
freedom and ended with a blunt call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be
stopped.
"For
God's sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said during a visit to
Warsaw, Poland, in his strongest comments to date about his desire to see Putin
gone.
Shortly
after the speech, a White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity
said Biden was not calling for Putin to be removed from office.
“The
president’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his
neighbors or the region," the official said. "He was not discussing
Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change."
Biden’s
remarks came just a few hours after he bluntly described the Russian leader as
“a butcher” while meeting with Ukrainian refugees who had fled to Poland to
escape the war in their homeland.
Biden appealed to ordinary Russians, first telling them – “if you’re able to listen” – that “you ... are not our enemy.”
https://news.yahoo.com/russias-signals-shifting-goals-ukraine-073034188.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
The
United States and its allies have imposed crippling economic sanctions on the Russian
economy – which means that the richest and most powerful people in the country
would he delighted if Putin simply faded away.
There is a loud and growing chorus of calls
for the International Criminal Court to pursue Vladimir Putin for his
unprovoked attack on Ukraine.
The US
government has formally declared that
members of the Russian armed forces have committed war crimes.
The top
war crimes prosecutor for the ICC has traveled to Ukraine to investigate.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/politics/putin-war-crimes-russia-ukraine-us-what-matters/index.html
No
one know how long the conflict in the Ukraine will continue, or whether Putin will
actually remain in power.
There
is one thing for certain, though, and that is this
If
I had possession over judgement day, Putin would no longer be a leader on the
world state.
If
I Had Possession Over Judgement Day - YouTube
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