Communist Apologists take over Scholastic Books

When did Scholastic books get taken over by communists? In a book about World War II world leaders they complain Stalin was NOT a big enough murdering communist

"Stalin increased the pay for skilled labor, as opposed to common labor. That created a gap between the two groups" pic.twitter.com/NGDjlAPf9H

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) March 22, 2018

I included my snarky comments [inside square brackets] otherwise I simply transcribed the text from Rosenberg, Aaron. World War Ii: Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hirohito, Dwight D. Eisenhower. New York: Scholastic, 2011. Print.

Five-Year Plan

In 1928 Stalin had introduced a Five-Year Plan to industrialize the new Soviet Union.  With this plan, the government increased coal and iron production [ #GlobalWarming!!!!] and electrical generation.  Overseers compiled files on each worker.  They publicly humiliated those who did not meet production goals.  Poor workers could even be accused of sabotage and shot or put to manual labor.  At the same time, Stalin increased the pay for skilled labor, as opposed to common labor.  That created a  gap between the two groups, and established new classes in the Soviet Union.

Terror Tactics

By 1932 Stalin’s opponents were growing more vocal.  They were complaining about his Five-Year Plan and the methods he was using to encourage hard work [like the aforementioned shooting of workers who didn’t meet their quota].  They were not happy about the increased wages or the new class system.  Many politicians felt they had been wrong to remove Trotsky from power.  Stalin tried to silence his critics, but his own protege, Sergey Kirov, protested and won the support of the Politburo, the Soviet congress.  Kirov was winning more and more approval from party members, and Stalin worried that Kirov would try to replace him as leader.

Kirov was assassinated on December 1, 1934.  Stalin claimed a conspiracy was behind the death [lead presumably by Stalin’s evil twin].  He used Kirov’s death as an excuse to arrest and execute several of his rivals, including Kamenev and Zinoviev.

Rahm Emanuel followed Stalin 's example-never let a crisis go to waste-especially one of your own making

"Kirov was assassinated on December 1, 1934. Stalin claimed a conspiracy was behind the death. He used Kirov’s death as an excuse to arrest & execute several of his rivals" pic.twitter.com/fK3KpEa0Bh

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) March 22, 2018

In September 1936, Stalin appointed his follower Nikolai Yezhov to run the NKVD, the Communist secret police.  Yezhov soon arrested all of Stalin’s chief rivals and critics.  The NKVD convinced [no euphemism here] these prisoners to confess to treason, and then executed them.  Next they purged the Soviet army of anyone they thought was a traitor.  

Democrats in general seem to be acting like the old Soviet NKVD -anybody who disagrees w/them are denounced as engaging in treason

"Yeshiva soon arrested all of Stalin’s chief rivals and critics. The NKVD convinced these prisoners to confess to treason, and then executed them" pic.twitter.com/EY7NgB2czs

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) March 22, 2018

This included eight commanders who were charged with conspiring with Germany.

Finally, in 1938, Stalin announced that Fascists (people who believed in Fascism, which teaches that a country needs a single strong leader and should be run like a business [so this describes Stalin - except the running the country like a business part - unless your business happens to be running a funeral parlor]) had taken control of the secret police.  They were the ones responsible for all these deaths.  He appointed Lavrenti Beria to head the secret police and find out who was responsible [Stalin was as shocked to discover so many political assassinations occurring in the USSR as Claude Rains was to find gambling in the Casablanca casino].  Beria captured and executed all of the other high-ranking officers in the NKVD, including Yezhov.  All those who had known about the purging of potential rivals and Stalin’s involvement with them were now dead.  Nearly seven hundred thousand people died during what became known as the Great Purge.