Saturday, March 26, 2022

If I had possession over judgement day.

 


Throughout history, there have been numerous evil people that have come into power.

 Most of the time, they came to an untimely end.

 Joseph Stalin was one of the more murderous dictators of the 20th century.

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 Holodomorshould 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 KaganovichStanislav 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/Joseph_Stalin#Final_years:_1950%E2%80%931953

 Idi Ami came into power in Uganda in 1971, and served until 1979. He is considered one of the most brutal despots in world history. Amin's rule was characterized by rampant human rights abuses, including political repressionethnic persecution and extrajudicial killings, as well as nepotismcorruption, and gross economic mismanagement. International observers and human rights groups estimate that between 100,000 and 500,000 people were killed under his regime. He was forced from power in 1979 by Tanzaian  troops, and went into exile to Saudi Arabia, where he died in 2003.

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.

 During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Milošević was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with war crimes in connection with the Bosnian War, the Croatian War of Independence, and the Kosovo War. He became the first sitting head of state to be charged with war crimes. During the 1990s, numerous anti-government and antiwar protests took place. It is estimated that between 50,000 and 200,000 people deserted the Milošević-controlled Yugoslav People's Army, while between 100,000 and 150,000 people emigrated from Serbia, refusing to participate in the wars

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.

 https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/03/21/russian-elites-conspiring-to-overthrow-putin-ukrainian-intelligence-says-1215273/

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.

 

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