Epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva were accused of intentionally spreading Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps during Stalin’s purges, despite their significant contributions to public health.
In the early 20th century, a group of scientists…
In the early 20th century, a group of scientists and engineers in the Soviet Union attempted to reverse the course of a major river and redirect it to a new location. The project, known as the “White Sea-Baltic Canal,” involved the construction of a massive canal that would connect the White Sea in the north […]
Stalin struggled with depression and summoned…
Stalin struggled with depression and summoned renowned Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev to examine him. After the examination Bekhterev said only one word – “paranoiac”. He died on the very next day from what most believed was poisoning.
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It was Stalin that invented the phrase…
It was Stalin who invented the phrase ‘American Exceptionalism’. It was originally used as a way to attack Americans and their desire to see themselves as unique. Now most Americans use the term in a positive way.
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The first president of Mongolia, Peljidiin…
The first president of Mongolia, Peljidiin Genden allegedly slapped and broke Stalin’s pipe after Stalin pressured him to destroy Mongolia’s buddhist clergies. Genden was “invited” to the USSR, ostensibly for medical treatment, in April 1936. He then spent a whole year at the Black Sea resort town of Foros. In summer 1937, he was arrested […]
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George Orwell’s use of 2+2=5…
George Orwell’s use of 2+2=5 as a catchphrase of the dystopian government in his book 1984 is based on Joseph Stalin’s use of that equation in propaganda. Soviet posters declared “2 + 2 plus the enthusiasm of the workers = 5” long before Orwell wrote his novel. The USSR reached the goals of that Five […]
Stalin hired people to edit…
Stalin hired people to edit photographs throughout his reign. People who became his enemy were removed from every photograph pictured with him. Sometimes, Stalin would even insert himself in photos at key moments in history, or had technicians make him look taller in them.
When Stalin visited his mother…
When Stalin visited his mother in 1935, she asked him what he did. He said “Do you remember the tsar? Well, I’m like a tsar” his mother’s response was “You’d have done better to have become a priest”. 00
As a revolutionary, Josef Stalin was arrested and exiled….
As a revolutionary, Josef Stalin was arrested and exiled to Siberia 6 times. He escaped the first 5. So for his 6th, he was sent to a hamlet just south of the Arctic Circle where he lived as a hunter gatherer alongside an arctic tribe for 2 years. 10
Nikita Khrushchev made a speech denouncing Stalin that was…
Nikita Khrushchev made a speech denouncing Stalin that was so shocking it caused heart attacks for some in attendance and others committed suicide afterwards.