Grigory Zinoviev / Hirsz Apfelbaum

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Founders of totalitarian regime

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev / Hirsh Apfelbaum / Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky was born in 1883 in Yelizavetgrad - Russian social democrat and communist of Jewish origin, a leading activist of the Bolshevik movement. He was tried in the first Moscow show trial at the dawn of the Great TerrorThe Great Purge or the Great Terror was Joseph Stalin's campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union that occurred from 1936 to 1938. It involved large-scale repression of the peasantry; ethnic cleansing; purges of the Communist Party, government officials, and the Red Army; widespread police surveillance, suspicion of saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries, imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. Millions of innocent were mordered. Historians estimate the total number of victims of the Stalinist repression in 1937–38 to be between 950,000 and 1.2 million. in the USSR and executed in 1936.

He is considered one of the fathers of Bolshevism, a system that claimed 20 million lives, for which the revolution was more important than human lives. Arrests, executions and sending the 'bourgeoisie' to work camps were the order of the day. Not only real enemies of the revolution were murdered, but anyone who could be labelled a counter-revolutionary; officers, teachers, students, former tsarist officials, priests, members of the opposition, white guards. The plundering of peasants' food to "sustain" the revolution (grain was sold abroad) soon became disastrous; people starved to death, most severely in Ukraine.

This is how Zinoviev, then chairman of the Council of Workers' Delegates in Petrograd, put the tenets of Bolshevik policy:

To get rid of our enemies, we must create our own socialist terror. In order to do this, we will have to drag 90 million of the 100 million Russians with us and have them on our side. We have nothing to say to the remaining 10 million; we will have to get rid of them.

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