Title: cassie tong
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009
Time: 4:34 AM
This picture shows men captured by the NKVD or arrested for other various reasons by the NKVD and brought into these labour camps. Who are forced to work and worked to the limit that they often die of fatigue. They are all dressed in striped dirty uniforms and are all bending forward to push the large and heavy carts full scrap metal and other raw material used to make metals. Which are then used to make tractors and other equipment as part of Stalin’s industrialization scheme. They are working so hard in such bad conditions from their very dirty uniforms. Still they are working so hard, as the picture depicts them bending forward a lot to pull the carts, with two officers supervising.Firstly I would just like to say that, I secretly admire Stalin a lot for coming up with such sly excuses to make the people work. I really wonder how his mind works and how he could some up with something so cruel and kill so many peasants. To use convicts or innocent people and just work them to death with no one daring to protest. People lived in an oppressed nation and in fear constantly monitored by his secret police the NKVD. However on the other hand, I feel really disgusted by his policies and working the labours to death. He caused the deaths of millions of people I really want to know how he could go to sleep every night knowing he is the cause of millions who have died. Not just the labourers alone suffered. Others alike did not get enough food, clothes and other necessities as Stalin put too much emphasis on industrialization. This caused millions to die from starvation and people to suffer from malnutrition. The labouers were worked to death by him, worse still some were captured just because the NKVD has a quota they have to meet each month. So the people in the labour camps were captured for no good reason at all. Stalin only had this policy to force more people to work for him. Saying they have committed a crime and are anti-communist to force them into working very hard. If Stalin could just take a second to reflect on his policies rather then rigorously trying to catch up with the rest of the world, although the economy is important. I still do not think the economy is worth the lives of millions of people who died. Imagine if it was your own loved ones. In conclusion I would just like to say that Stalin forgot about the basic needs of the people and his most basic responsibility- the people’s welfare.
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