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I was interested in knowing more and tried to find what her father was charged with. The best i could come up with was this from a badly translated article: "U

by mrobot 8y ago

I was interested in knowing more and tried to find what her father was charged with. The best i could come up with was this from a badly translated article: "Under the leadership of Markizova big sabotage was conducted in the livestock building, in which the cattle were exposed to cold-related diseases and deaths. The waste of young animals amounted to 40 000 heads…" http://z-news.xyz/get-that-lousy-said-stalin-the-story-about-the-girl/ http://z-news.xyz/get-that-lousy-said-stalin-the-story-about...

pvg 8y ago
They just made up charges from a more or less standard set, as Stalin purged people across the entire depth and breadth of the leadership. Her father, a high-level regional functionary, has a Russian wikipedia page - it seems seems it's not entirely clear what he was charged with although the two possible stories outlined are among the staples of the time - espionage/plotting against Stalin/ counterrevolution or some subset of the former but more about 'wrecking', deliberate economic sabotage.
EliRivers 8y ago
Just as an item of general interest, "sabotage" was (I understand; I'm no historian!) a common charge when targets weren't met. I've just finished reading Anne Applebaum's book on the famine in Ukraine; if impossible targets aren't met, pick some people and say they sabotaged production. The problem isn't the system, and the problem certainly isn't the impossible demands and the purges and the terrified lies from the cadres and the disasters of collectivisation and the self-defeating elimination of the best workers (in Ukraine, owning a few cows and being good at farming could qualify you as a 'kulak' and an enemy of the people, ready for execution or the gulag, so of course the most competent farmers were eliminated early). None of that; the problem is saboteurs. Pick someone, charge him and execute him (or send him to a gulag).
- dingaling 8y ago
  Even Stalin-era test pilots feared a charge of sabotage if something went wrong on a flight. Which was particularly terrifying when Stalin would give chief designers an arbitrary deadline of one or two years to build a prototype. It had to work first time or a lot of people were going to the gulag. No-one was safe from Stalin's vengeance, except apparently General Tito of Yugoslavia who survived many of his assassination attempts and allegedly returned the favour successfully.
  - pvg 8y ago
    or a lot of people were going to the gulag. The practical problems that might arise here were eventually elegantly solved by placing entire design bureaus and research institutes directly in the gulag system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka

by mrobot 8y ago

pvg 8y ago

They just made up charges from a more or less standard set, as Stalin purged people across the entire depth and breadth of the leadership. Her father, a high-level regional functionary, has a Russian wikipedia page - it seems seems it's not entirely clear what he was charged with although the two possible stories outlined are among the staples of the time - espionage/plotting against Stalin/ counterrevolution or some subset of the former but more about 'wrecking', deliberate economic sabotage.

EliRivers 8y ago

Just as an item of general interest, "sabotage" was (I understand; I'm no historian!) a common charge when targets weren't met. I've just finished reading Anne Applebaum's book on the famine in Ukraine; if impossible targets aren't met, pick some people and say they sabotaged production. The problem isn't the system, and the problem certainly isn't the impossible demands and the purges and the terrified lies from the cadres and the disasters of collectivisation and the self-defeating elimination of the best workers (in Ukraine, owning a few cows and being good at farming could qualify you as a 'kulak' and an enemy of the people, ready for execution or the gulag, so of course the most competent farmers were eliminated early). None of that; the problem is saboteurs. Pick someone, charge him and execute him (or send him to a gulag).

dingaling 8y ago
Even Stalin-era test pilots feared a charge of sabotage if something went wrong on a flight. Which was particularly terrifying when Stalin would give chief designers an arbitrary deadline of one or two years to build a prototype. It had to work first time or a lot of people were going to the gulag. No-one was safe from Stalin's vengeance, except apparently General Tito of Yugoslavia who survived many of his assassination attempts and allegedly returned the favour successfully.
- pvg 8y ago
  or a lot of people were going to the gulag. The practical problems that might arise here were eventually elegantly solved by placing entire design bureaus and research institutes directly in the gulag system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka