History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Overproduction, Avoidance Speech, Warsaw Pact
19 Aug 2016
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Last period of stalinist rule: 1945-1953: harsh material conditions, famine (1947) a. i. Stalin refused to call for assistance from the western world a. ii. 1. More men of military age died during this time a. ii. 1. a. 60:1 of women to men: severe housing shortage b. i. The germans had destroyed a large part of the housing stock of the. Several families would be sharing one apartment: political crackdown, new show trials in eastern europe, some clearly anti-semitic, he would send people that were against him to siberia b. i. Mass deportations led to high causality rates b. ii. During the war the people in the army were safe from stalin b. ii. 1. Once the war was over pows were exiled to siberia as they had come into contact with the west b. ii. 1. a. Was able to get to the people who knew little else and were willing to believe anything: role of soviet union and communist resistance movements in defeat of hitler b. i.
