Living under Stalinism and the Great Terror

Living under Stalinism and the Great Terror

For me, one of the emotions that Podlubny discussed in the diary is the pain of losing a loved one (Garros et al. 1997), pg. 294. Stalin lost his wife, which profoundly affected him because it felt like the end of any semblance of a normal family life.It is painful to lose a loved one, and this made Stalin shed tears during his wife’s funeral. During these kinds of moments, many people have a lot of thoughts that they can’t articulate, and they normally get lost in the thoughts they try to share with others (Garros et al. 1997) pg. 294. In the Soviet Union, there was no evidence of family life within the private sphere. Most of them were suppressed, and their family history was like a forbidden memory zone (they were not allowed to talk or write about it).But for Stalin, he could find someone to remember and thank (Sasha Boikov) due to the kind of care he showed him when he engaged in a reckless accident (Garros et al. 1997) pg. 295.