Joseph Stalin Eight Stages Of Genocide

“Stalin muttered to no one in particular: ‘Who’s going to remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years time? No one … The people had to know he was getting rid of all his enemies. In the end, they all got what they deserved’” (Naimark 30,31 ). Genocide is the destruction of a group of people for either political or economic reasons. The target group of the Stalin genocide were mainly farmers called kulaks and political leaders who went against Stalin. “Stalin’s actions whether some believed were genocide or not, were perceived by many as a form of genocide’. “Genocide will always be a part of societies when one group wants to have power over another group and will do whatever it takes.’ Joseph Stalin’s belief was that he was a superpower and that the kulaks and most of his countrymen were unworthy of him so that they were his enemies and needed to be wiped off the face of the earth.
The term genocide is the deliberate killing of a large particular group of people or nation with eight special stages. “Genocide is the intention to destroy, in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group”
Stanton. Classification is used to distinguish people into us and them by ethnicity, race, religion or nationality.(Stanton) Symbolization is giving names to the classes or distinguish them by colors or dress. (Stanton) Dehumanization is to compare them to animals, vermin, insects or diseases.(Stanton) Organization is by the state using militias to provide killings.(Stanton) Polarization is driving the groups apart and making laws to forbid social interaction.(Stanton) Preparation are death lists made up or groups made to wear identifying symbols.(Stanton) Extermination is the mass killings of people.(Stanton)s Denial the final stage is trying to cover up the evidence and intimidate witnesses never to speak of the genocide.