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SCRIBE OSCAR MARTÍNEZ ON ALFREDO MEZA:

Alfredo, as a good reporter who knows that to understand

who remained, visited the pran in their domains for three years

followed. Alfredo, as a good reporter who knows a voice

it's always little, he talked to the acolytes of the criminal, with whom

they venerated him in the streets, with those who suffered him. Some

those people, like Judge Mariela Casado, suffered him to death.

the point of wanting to erase part of their lives.
NELSON RIVERA

To the memory of Marianne Kohn Beker

I

Between 1921 and 1922 the Bolsheviks

learned that hunger is a weapon

lethal. Then to the aftermath of the

war added the expropriations

and collectivization. Production is

he came to the ground. In scenes of indignation,
,
armed bodies of the communists

the grain produced

in Ukraine, “the barn of Europe.”
The peasants trying to keep

something they had produced,
,
they were shot down. The requisites were

executed without compassion. To whom

they resisted, shot them and burned them

the house. Diseases

they spread through fields, towns and cities.
People were starving. Them

corpses were piled up. Persons

in the last state of extenuation

they were forced to dig ditches: there

they threw the exangüe bodies out of the

they died. A scene is enough: a witness

saw a woman who had died

a baby still alive, tried

suction from his chest. At least

3 million people died

within 30 months. I repeat: more than

three million in 30 months.
1933 is the year that marks the beginning of

a tragic time for life and civilization:

Hitler ascends to power

Germany and Stalin initiates the intended process

to consolidate his personal dictatorship.
Despite their differences, one and

others believed that the State should, at the cost

to have control of the land

and agriculture. The Fifth Plan

1928 promoted by Stalin had his

center in the collectivization. The vision

hitler consisted of snatching the land

poland and the Soviet Union,
,
kill or enslav the peasants.
Stalin conceived it as a war.

for the grain. Hitler as a right

of a higher race. They both had a

Ukraine as an expensive target.
II

Ukraine, 1933. Day after day, up to forty

a thousand people lined up for

exchange a coupon for a small

bread bar. Often the tails lasted

two days. People who just had

delivered harvests to groups

armed, he came out to beg. Pululaban

What's next is not

a review, but more

well a reaction to

book by historian

american

Timothy Snyder

(1969), Lands of

blood. Europe

between Hitler and

Stalin, rigorous and

systematic count

of the practice of

mass murder,
,
that reached his

climax with

the Holocaust

the sick. They were dead in their

houses, schools, streets. La.

police had instructions to collect

the kids and lock them up. In a barracks

of Jartov, the number of children I expected

death reached twenty

thousand. In the diary of a bureaucrat

of the barracks was written: “the children

they ask us to get them out of here,

we let them die outdoors.”
In December it was announced that the kulaks

they'd be annihilated. He was murdered.

persons who had not committed an offence

any. He was killed for “necessity

historical”. It was executed or deported

to the peasants (in 1929 it had plucked

the massive construction of fields

concentration; the GULAG arrived

476 complexes and a population

of convicted persons of 18 million
,
of which more than three million

died in their facilities). Them

peasants fought. The Communists

ukraine tried to mediate. Between

four and five thousand people died

executed or hunger every day. Stalin

said the peasants demoralized

the revolution with its “lovers.”
The famine became

evidence of disloyalty. Who was it?

of hunger was considered an agent

of imperialism. Having food was a

crime. Laws and laws were produced

result was a greater mortanity.
The agents of the Communist Party arrived

at night to the houses of the

women whose husbands had been deported:

they raped them and took everything.

what they found. Hunger was

denounced as sabotage to socialism.
“In the last weeks of 1932,
,
when there were no external threats

nor internal dangers, without any other justification

to prove

that his dictates were inexorable,
,
Stalin chose to kill millions of people

in Soviet Ukraine. Adopted

a posture of pure bad faith, in which

the ukrainian peasant was the aggressor

of peasant families became

as traitors to the state. The average

of daily deaths reached the

ten thousand. First they were cats

and dogs. Later, carrion.
Finally, cannibalism spread

until the unimaginable: children who devoured

his newly dead brothers.
She was in prostitution for flour.
“Those who did not want to kill

other men. Parents died

who did not want to fall into cannibalism,
,
and their children died later.” Staff

communists reported that

1933 died for starvation, in all

the Soviet Union, more than 5 million

and a half of people. Of them, almost four

millions were Ukrainians. But

that, according to the communists, was not

more than a necessary chapter in the

history of human progress.
III

1933: Himmler orders to operationalize

to Dachau, the first field

of nazi concentration (before 1945 will be

built over a thousand fields).
The Jews are beaten in the streets,
,
stolen, boycotted doctors, lawyers

and merchants. Hitler says, it's the

“ spontaneous” of the people in the face of exploitation

jewish. Laws entered into force

restricting the participation of

the jews in education, agriculture,
,
work and economy. Between 1933

and 1939 the hitler regime would approve

1400 laws against the Jewish people (1). In

1933 the demons will be released

in the Shoah.
“Part of Stalin’s political talent

resided in his ability to associate

outdoor threats with

failures of your internal policy, as if

both were the same and he didn't.

is responsible for any,” he writes

Timothy Snyder. Between 1934 and 1939

Stalin charged against society itself

soviet. He said in a toast,

his cup raised: “We will destroy

without mercy to anyone who, for his

made or by his thoughts—yes,
,
his thoughts! — threatens unity

of the socialist state.” Between 1937-

1938 the Great Terror had its climax.
Police members were a

judges, jurors and executioners.
Allanaban. They tortured. It was persecuted.

with obscene teson to enemies

imaginary.
Trapped at the end of the pain,
,
the detainees invented plots

of new arrests,
,
torments and false confessions.
The story of the invented crimes acquired

fantastic proportions. One

young illiterate, who cleaned the bathroom

in an inn located 50 kilometres

of Tobolks, in Siberia, was shot

for having a postcard from Paris (2).
IV

Orders were issued, one after the other,
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East of Hitler, west of Stalin

to deport and execute citizens.
Each order reached strambotic figures:

run 79,950 people

and deport another 193 thousand to penalties between

8 and 10 years. They set quotas. Them

agents should be ferocious. La.

flake was tantamount to betrayal. The quotas

were divided between 64 administrative regions.
A troika chose the

first persons to be interrogated

and tortured. A few

they were enough for the body

blossoming confessions

alien to reality. On 21 July

1937 Stalin put his signature in an order

which allowed the beating of detainees

until they confessed. The Troikas

they fought each other for being efficient.
There were some five-fold.

your goals. Just a minute.

to determine whether a defendant should

go to the GULAG or be executed. It's famous.

performance achieved by

leningrad troika, which in a day

7 hours night, checked

files and sentenced to death

658 people. More productivity: 15

nVDK agents from Moscow executed

20,761 people in Butovo,
,
in less than two years. At the end

1939 700 thousand citizens

executed, 300 thousand of which were

ukrainians and poles.
Between 1937 and 1938 more than 250 thousand citizens

were liquidated by order

stalin, based on ethnic reasons.
Order 00485 defined that some nationalities

they were enemies of the State.
The sana he acted against

poles-soviets could form

a catalogue of the horrors of

20th century. Ten years of GULAG for having

a rosary. Death for not reaching

the ordered agricultural production.
The NKVD patented the ‘conference’ method:

met from 20 to 30 suspects

a basement. One was chosen to be

tortured to death, in front of

rest. The following were collected

confessions that revealed the link

of each with a supposed Organization

Polish military.
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AUSCHWITZ RUNS / AUSCHWITZ MUSEUM

1933 is the year

which marks

the beginning of a

tragic time

for life