Stalin

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Under Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s Great Terror of mass arrests in the 1930s, Lefortovo was one of the main pre-trial detention facilities for “enemies of the people,” equipped with torture chambers to extract confessions.

From Seattle Times

Earlier this month, he said the prosecution of Moskalyov represented political repression reaching “new levels,” akin to what happened in the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin.

From Seattle Times

“I wasn’t a researcher anymore, I was Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler,” Mr. Moreno said.

From New York Times

Both sides of his family had been oppressed under Stalin; his grandfather on his father’s side was executed in 1939, and his mother and her family were dispossessed and deported from Poland in 1945.

From New York Times

After Stalin’s death, he found his way back to his original compositional voice late in life and is now remembered as the father of Ukrainian contemporary music.

From New York Times