Koba the Dead

On this day, in 1953, the globe released its collective breath, as the Bringer of Light finally claimed his own. . .



One of Koba’s most famous quotes lives on in infamy: “Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”

Koba, it is conservatively estimated, had some 20 million problems, all of which he solved via collectivization, dekulakization, the famines, the Great Terror, the purges, the Gulag Archipelago, Vorkuta, Kolyma, Solovetsky, Suhanovka - on and on it went, decade after decade after decade. Twenty million senseless killings. Twenty million ‘problems’ solved. Over a quarter of a century of relentless, grinding evil.

Zachto? Why? For what?

As Solzhenitsyn wrote in Volume One of The Gulag Archipelago:

We didn’t love freedom enough. . .We purely and simply deserved everything that came after.

As Martin Amis wrote in 'Koba the Dread' (and whose title I have partially borrowed):

Everybody knows of Auschwitz and Belsen. Nobody knows of Vorkuta and
Solovetsky.

Everybody knows of Himmler and Eichmann. Nobody knows of Yeshov and
Dzerzhinsky.

Everybody knows of the 6 million of the Holocaust. Nobody knows of the 6
million of the Terror-Famine [Ed: alone]. . .

Fools abound, of course, the usual suspects who to this day work to rehabilitate this evil in man’s flesh; people for whom this vicious mass-murderer, easily the greatest killer history has ever seen, was just sweetness and light. Read just one example, and be truly amazed:

We would not have the impertinence to claim any purported "home page" of the Great Leader and Teacher [Ed: that’d be Stalin]. Since He is the Eternal Genius of All Usenet and All Humanity, every page on the World Wide Web is a mere reflection of His inspiration. That even applies to effusions by misguided counterrevolutionaries and Trotsky-fascist hyenas.

There is no over-familiarity, however, in setting aside an area for special honor to the Great Leader and Teacher; on the contrary, that is the socialist duty of every conscientious worker or peasant in the Cyber-USSR.

From what I can tell, this character is deadly serious. And this, in the face of just one example of just one small part of Stalin’s being (cannibalism during the great famine, one of Stalin's very favourite instruments of terror):



And did you know that Koba invented the 'unperson'; the modern technique of airbrushing and retouching photographs, lives and history itself (and there you were thinking George Orwell's '1984' was fiction - think again - fact was far, far more horrifying)?

Now you see him (Yeshov). . .



And now you don’t. . .



Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. . .

. . .may you rot in hell.