Most of what we know about the USSR and especially Stalinism is 95% false/untrue based on Cold War papargonda. Most of which came from Robert Conquest who worked for Information Research Department of the British Foreign Office anti-Soviet papargonda unit and especially the Trotskyite coup following Stalin's murder of Nikita Khrushchev who was involved in an anti-Soviet plot to overthrow the Stalin prior to WW2 which is now known as the so called show trials . "According to a 1978 article in The Guardian of London, Robert Conquest got his big break shortly after World War II, when he joined the Information Research Department of the British Foreign Office. Staffed heavily by e9migre9s, the IRD's mission was a covert "propaganda counter-offensive" against the Soviet Union. It was heady, hands-on work for a young writer, a chance to slant media coverage of Russia by adding political "spin" to Eastern bloc press releases and funneling them to top reporters. The journalists knew little about the IRD, beyond the names of their mysterious contacts. The public knew nothing at all, even as their opinions were being sculpted. After Conquest left the IRD in 1956, the agency suggested that he package some of his handiwork into a book. That first compilation was distributed in the US by Fred Praeger, who had previously published several books at the request of the CIA. The shy and courtly Conquest has come a long way since then, from gray propagandist to e9minence grise. He is now a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, as well as an associate of Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute. But his heart and his pen never left the IRD. The Soviet Union would be Conquest's lifetime obsession. He churned out book after book on the horrors of communism: The Nation Killer, Where Marx Went Wrong, Kolyma: the Arctic Death Camps. His landmark work of 1968, The Great Terror, focused on Stalin's purges of the late 1930s. But by 1984, his work had turned surreal; What To Do When the Russians Come was the literary equivalent of that politico-teen-disaster flick, Red Dawn. Yet he remained a mainstream heavyweight, coasting on reputation, his excesses accepted as Free World zeal." Since 1921 till 1954 (that is for the whole period of 33 years) in the Soviet Union according to the archives of the NKVD, Ministry of the Interior, and of all other state prosecuting organs there was found and documentarily confirmed the following total number of repressed persons. Namely: Executed: 642,980 persons Imprisoned: 2,369,220 personsExiled: 765,180 personsThis during civil wars, a world war and invasion of the country, famines and crop failures, large scale outbreaks of disease, anti-communist forces inside and outside the country, sabotage, etc.
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