Holodomor: The Mass Starvation of the Ukrainian Country
Totalitarianism is absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution, according to dictionary.com. In 1942 the war of World War 2 broke out into the entire world. Countries were fighting countries, people were fighting people, and families were fighting families all because of one person told them to do so. Countries were being bombed, people, and specifically Jews were being put into concentration camps, and mass murders happened everywhere. Adolph Hitler is a prime example of what totalitarianism is he controlled the Nazi combat and World War 2. In 1984 Big Brother wanted everyone to follow his way and wanted no one to question him or the way life was. An even recent example of what totalitarianism is Kim Jong- Un. He runs North
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He wants his country to be uniformed and his. In 1932 through 1933 Holodomor was known as the Terror-Famine and Famine Genocide in Ukraine. There was an extreme amount of evidence that supports the fact that it was a genocide. During this time people were starved and deprived of food and water. In a result 7 to 10 million people lost their lives by this national tragedy. Joseph Stalin was a dictator of the Union who gained control of Ukraine and blocked the country so no one could get in or out. He deprived the country of food and collected all grains that were farmed. When he thought someone was a potential enemy he had them executed or sent to labor camps with just enough food to survive if that. He wanted to teach his followers, Ukraine’s framers, “A lesson they would not forget” for resisting collectivization. Stalin would command that farmers give up their land and food so that he could sell
1. In her book “Total Domination”, Hannah Arendt strongly believed that Totalitarianism is trying to achieve the idea of Total domination. She studied and analyzed how totalitarianism had always falls into the idea of total domination in which she explained how total domination works in her point of view and her own description of Totalitarian. Her purpose is to show how the leaders treated humans lesser than animals in a way of how they torture people with their cruelty. She seems to have a great ideas of her comparison that gives justice to really make me believe that totalitarian has the same idea of total dominion.
Starvation was crucial during the Holocaust, which separated you from life or death. This affected most of the prisoners from doing their tasks. In the book Ellie says, “ Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.” Elie Wiesel was starving at some point of every day since he was forced into labor and torture. He talks about how these two items were his whole life, because that's all the food they received. With only focusing on food they must have been in the ultimate stage of starvation. When in the ultimate stage of hunger you become “prone to Muscle spasms and twitches happen when the potassium level becomes dangerously low. Extreme
Inverted totalitarianism is a termed made by political philosopher Sheldon Wolin to describe the emerging form of government of the United States. Wolin believed that the United States is increasingly turning into a partial democracy. He used the term “inverted totalitarianism” to illustrate the similarities and differences between the United States governmental system and totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany with Hitler and Stalinist Soviet Union. Wolin central points are how are government is highly managed, money-saturated elections, the lobby-infested Congress, the imperial presidency, the class-biased judicial, the penal system, and the media. Inverted totalitarianism is different from traditional forms of totalitarianism. It doesn't
Totalitarianism can be defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as the centralized control by an autocratic authority. The leaders of these societies are obsessed with complete control and will take whatever steps are necessary to reach such a goal. In many totalitarian societies, children are separated from their families. This is enforced on the citizens because rulers want them to be loyal to the government. Such living arrangements can be portrayed in Ayn Rand’s novel, Anthem.
Nazism possess the core features of totalitarianism, however has a few differences which distinguishes it. Totalitarianism, by the Friedrich-Brzezinski definition, is when the government establishes complete control over all aspects of the state,maintaining the complete control of laws and over what people can say, think and do. Nazi Germany satisfies most of this criteria, as they had a one party system without political opposition. Moreover, they had a single unchallenged leader, in Hitler, to whom the entire nation conformed to. Furthermore, the party had nearly complete control over the country, controlling what people thought through propaganda and censorship, as well as what people could do through fear and terror. However, there are
A totalitarian government is one of the strictest forms of government with the least amount of freedom for the people. A totalitarian government is a mix of the military, individual leadership and the national political party. Usually the leader is a person who has a kind of charisma that makes his authority inherent and compelling. The leader defines himself as the embodiment of the nation’s will and ideal. The leaders build cults around themselves and transformed public rituals into occasions for veneration. Public rallies and parades were meant to display the strength of the leader. The military would function at the will of the leader and changed to meet the needs of the government. The party is always right and argument is impossible. The purpose is to unite its goals to that of the state. Representative legislative bodies were eliminated although the regimes would give the people the chance to vote as the party wished or to not vote at all so it appeared they had a choice in the government.
In a world where you are monitored at all times, the government controls every aspect. Where is the freedom in that? Totalitarianism, the form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state. The book “1894” by George Orwell and the 1984 movie both present us with a society with this kind of government. Though this kind of world is highly exaggerated, it still portrays some issues and world problems we face today.
A dystopia the darkest form of government, a utopia gone wrong, a craving for power, struggling for fewer rules. The dystopia is factual the worst possible form of a government. Its the struggle to be so perfect that it fails. There are typically two types of dystopias first a monarchy. A monarchy is a group of people controlled by a king or queen, and they make every last decision. What they want they get. A monarchy is typically born like this example from lord of the flies. “He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them"(Golding 58). This shows that a monarchy starts by one just taking over from the start rather than being a "team player." A communistic government is the opposite of a monarchy in life style but ironically is not in their governing body. They rule by having everyone as an equal, so no one is poor and few people are rich. They are seemingly alike in so many ways. Amongst the political spectrum there are two dystopian governments more alike than as difference, communism and monarchy.
Joseph Stalin was a realist dictator of the early 20th century in Russia. Before he rose to power and became the leader of Soviet Union, he joined the Bolsheviks and was part of many illegal activities that got him convicted and he was sent to Siberia (Wood, 5, 10). In the late 1920s, Stalin was determined to take over the Soviet Union (Wiener & Arnold 199). The main aspects of his worldview was “socialism
Furthermore, a totalitarianism based government is a dictatorship, on in which the dictator is not limited by constitutional laws or further opposition. "Big Brother is watching you" (Orwell 3). Why is Big Brother so concerned with the surveillance of its citizens? In 1984 the journey of one individual, Winston Smith is narrated. His life characterizes the recklessness and deprivation of totalitarian...
What is a Dystopia? A Dystopia is a futuristic, imagined world in which the main ruler or the Government completely rules the citizens. It is a lot like an Autocratic or Oligarchic government. A Dystopian Society is NOT perfect. The government gives an illusion of a perfect society to the citizens. They rule the citizens through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, or moral control. We will talk about the controls in the next paragraph.
In a totalitarian state, the party leadership maintains monopoly control over the governmental system, which includes the police, military, communications, and economic and education systems. It was not secret and was much feared. Terror atomised the nation, people thought the Gestapo was everywhere but in fact there were a very small number. The Gestapo controlled concentration camps. The Nazi government achieved their power through fear from the terror of the SS and Gestapo, and the feared Police State is a characteristic of totalitarian States.
In the early nineteen thirties Ukrainians were prospering and growing with nationalistic pride as famous writers and poets emerged and were branded Ukrainian rather than Soviet. New found nationalism eventually led to the pledge for self-determination and independence of the state from the Soviet Union. This greatly angered Joseph Stalin (leader of the USSR) because he knew that the self determination of Ukraine would become a huge determent to the Soviet Union financially and politically. Losing Ukraine meant losing a large agricultural industry and control over other states that may follow Ukraine’s pursuit of independence. In effect, Stalin instilled a similar movement to Hitler’s, in which he used propaganda to negatively portray Ukrainians and initiated a purge that would, according to Stalin, remove the undesirables. This was done by creating propaganda in which the rest of the Soviet Union was given the impression that Ukraine was being rebellious and disloyal to their ‘true nation’ (the Soviet Union) and that they were trying to leave the Soviet Union while leaving everyone else in misery. This instilled narrow-minded mentality allowed Stalin to create the “crusade for peace” (Lipmann) which made farmland, grain, and all Ukrainian food sources come under the direct authority of Stalin’s regime and initiated one of the biggest man-made famines in world history. The genocide like famine was done to show the rest of the Soviet Union that their nation was being righteous and just by punishing the Ukrainians who were categorized as rebels by Stalin. On top of that, Stalin refused to accept and did not portray the massacres to his people and the rest of the world as a classified genocide. Instead, Stalin made the event and his regime’s ideals look righteous and positive by increasing the grain quota and the income of the Soviet
Soon, there appeared possibly the last film made by Avramenko and the last one made in America, The Tragedy of Carpatho-Ukraine. It exhibited an experience for Ukrainians, but it did not produce the direction that Avramenko might have wanted. This film was a political documentary on the province of Carpatho-Ukraine, who proclaimed independence from Hungary and strove to become their own sovereign country. Afterward, President Woloshin had made an arousing speech to the newly-formed Sojm(Congress), where he declared “Faith is the strength of the individual and the strength of the people.” In other words, faith in themselves would keep them strong against their enemies. Unfortunately, the film ends on a sad note with the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, when Hitler decided to conquer the Soviet Union. Although the film had a general theme of showing Ukraine trying to proclaim independence for themselves, the source material did not seem authentic. The film faced a debate of whether the scenes with the Sojm appeared in past documentaries or reenactments. A truly sad demise had fallen on Peter Lissiuk, a cameraman, killed during a battle between the Hungarians and the Ukrainians during film production. Regardless, this last film established another decent film by Avramenko and managed to showcase the true events of Carpatho in the Ukrainians eyes, not the Soviets.
Totalitarianism is achieved when the citizens have surrendered their free will to the government; they must choose to obey the Party’s teachings. The government encourages this mindset through propaganda. Winston describes, “On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It is one of those pictures which are so contrived that eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran,” (5). In psychology, one of the motivators is the superego; our conscious that makes us behave according to expectations . If one feels that he is being observed, he will be much more likely to behave according to society 's standards. The poster is a constant reminder of this god-like figure watching over them. Any sane citizen would avoid punishment and the immense feelings of guilt by simply obeying Big