An estimated 30 local NKVD agents, guards and drivers were pressed into service to escort prisoners to the basement, confirm identification, then remove the bodies and hose down the blood after each execution. Although some of the executions were carried out by Senior Lieutenant of State Security Andrei Rubanov, Blokhin was the primary executioner and, true to his reputation, liked to work continuously and rapidly without interruption.[14] In keeping with NKVD policy and the overall “wet” nature of the operation, the executions were conducted at night, starting at dark and continuing until just prior to dawn. The bodies were continuously loaded onto covered flat-bed trucks through a back door in the execution chamber and trucked, twice a night, to the nearby village of Mednoye. Blokhin had arranged for a bulldozer and two NKVD drivers to dispose of bodies at an unfenced site. Each night, 24–25 trenches were dug, measuring 8 to 10 metres (26 to 33 ft) in length, to hold that night’s corpses, and each trench was covered over before dawn.[17]
Blokhin and his team worked without pause for 10 hours each night, with Blokhin himself executing an average of one prisoner every three minutes.[2] At the end of the night, he provided vodka to all his men.[18] On 27 April 1940, Blokhin secretly received the Order of the Red Banner and a modest monthly pay premium as a reward from Stalin for his “skill and organization in the effective carrying out of special tasks”.[19][20] His tally of 7,000 shot in 28 days remains the most organised and protracted mass murder by a single individual on record, and caused him being named the Guinness World Record holder for “Most Prolific Executioner” in 2010.[2][3]
Ya, totally equivalent.
Sit the fuck down.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
What the fuck are you on about?
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Prolonged systematic suffering and death, huh? If you hate that sort of thing, you’re really gonna hate that Joseph Stalin guy.
But here’s some more gruesome details about Stalin’s favorite executioner:
I bolded the part where Blokhin is literally dressed like Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Like I said, sit the fuck down.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
Yep, bad dude. Bad, bad dude. His boss was too. You didn’t, and won’t, get any argument on that from me. But you come across as one of those people who talk about systematic racism and knee jerk react by saying,“I’M NOT RACIST”. All I said was capitalism causes a fuckload of pain, suffering, and death as well. You were of the opinion that capitalism is somehow immune to evil or something. And I’m not sure why you keep saying sit down. The only time I type on here is when I’m at my desktop, and I don’t have a standing desk. You need to try to come up with something more appropriate. Or you know, just shut the fuck up with your capitalist boot licking, grow up, take some classes, and realize humans really suck when they get any type of power, whatever political clothes they wear.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ll explain for you (everyone else is able to pick up what you evidently can’t) why your equivocation attempt sucks ass, and why you should therefore, sit the fuck down, as was suggested previously:
My initial question was, Why do lemmy.ml users get hysterical when Joseph Stalin gets described accurately? Note that there is zero reference here to economic policy.
The entirety of your response has been Argle bargle whaddabout capitalism yip yip yip you capitalist bootlick blah blah blah whaddabout whaddabout whaddabout.
Joseph Stalin was a fucking awful man is a stand alone, easily defended premise.
Meanwhile, you want to pivot so hard to hurr durr capitalism bad, that you’re going to snap your own ankles.
Sit the fuck down.