Matvei Bronstein: Theorical physicist. Pioneer of quantum gravity. Arrested, accused of fictional “terroristic” activity and shot in 1938
Lev Shubnikov: Experimental physicist. Accused on false charges. Executed
Adrian Piotrovsky: Russian dramaturge. Accused on false charges of treason. Executed.
Nikolai Bukharin: Leader of the Communist revolution. Member of the Politburo. Falsely accused of treason. Executed.
General Alexander Egorov: Marshal of the Soviet Union. Commander of the Red Army Southern Front. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Arrested, accused on false charges, executed.
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky Supreme Marshal of the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the Red Napoleon. Arrested, accused on fake charges. Executed.
Grigory Zinoviev: Chairman of the Communist International Movement. Member of the Soviet Politburo. Accused of treason and executed.
Even the secret police themselves were not safe:
Genrikh Yagoda : Right-hand of Joseph Stalin. Head of the NKD Secret Police. He spied on everyone in Russia and jailed thousands of innocents. Yagoda was arrested and executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda
Nikolai Yezhov : Appointed head of the NKD Secret Police after the death of Yagoda. Arrested on fake charges, executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov
Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 600 000 people were killed and over one million people were deported to Gulags in Siberia.
As Eddie Izzard joked about mass murderers like Stalin: “The reason we let them get away with it is because they killed their own people, and we’re sort of fine with that. Oh help yourself! We’ve been trying to kill you for ages!”
Her[1] bit on Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_pHZmn5QM
For anyone that doesn’t know, Eddie Izzard is now Suzy Izzard ↩︎
Huh! No I didn’t.
It kinda makes sense, though. She was a “transvestite” for a very long time, and I guess just finally realized she was a she. :) For a while, she said she didn’t mind being called Eddie or Suzy, but more recently said that actually, she would prefer Suzy, although I suspect she’s pretty relaxed about it. :)
Social contagion, possibly. Not that it makes it inherently wrong, just saying that this seems like evidence towards that theory.
She seemed to be quite effortlessly a “male lesbian” when she was more actively touring. That was a part of a joke though, so might have meant nothing also.
Or how about you fuck completely and all the way off with that bigotry.
You should learn a bit of history.
I’m not here to teach you. I’m here to tell you to fuck off with your bigotry and block your bigoted ass.