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Summer 2022 Militaria Auction
Lot 328:
The newspaper "Ogoniok" – Death of Stalin on March 5, 1953
The entire issue is devoted to the life and death of Joseph Stalin.
Józef Stalin, actually Iosif Wissarionowicz Dżugashwili (Ioseb Besarionis Dze Dżughaszwili , ; alias Stalin, Koba, Iwanow, Wasiljew, Czyżykow, Besoszwili; born December 6? / December 18, 1878 in Gori, died 5 March 1953 in Kuncewo – a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionist, dictator, communist politician and criminal of Georgian origin, responsible for the deaths of millions of people.He was one of the organizers of the armed Bolshevik coup that went down in history as the "October Revolution". Until 1922 he was a member of the Council of People’s Commissars. the function of the nationality commissioner.
In the years 1919–1953 he was a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the ROC (b), then the ROC (b) and the CPSU.
Formally, he was the elected, term secretary general of the CPSU and its predecessors, and the prime minister of the USSR, in fact he was a lifetime dictator with unlimited power. The era of his rule in the USSR is known as Stalinism.
During Stalin’s rule in the USSR there was mass, state terror, which claimed the lives of 20 million people, of which 11 million died of starvation, and the number of victims of Soviet deportations, deportations and slave labor in labor camps was difficult to establish ]. Stalin, by concluding the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact with the Third Reich, enabled her to carry out armed aggression against Poland in September 1939, contributing to the outbreak of World War II.
"Ogoniok" (Russian: ‘ognik’) – Soviet and Russian illustrated weekly published since 1899 (the first issue was published on December 21, 1899). The seat of the newspaper is in Moscow.
Number 10 (1343) of March 8, 1953 devoted entirely to life and deathMikhail Koltsov, the founder of the "Ogoniok" periodical, was to create a magazine that would compete with traditional magazines, known at the time as bourgeois. At the same time, the editor declared the avant-garde of his actions. The program, content and message were a kind of attempt to create an alternative communication channel. Drawings, illustrations and easily digestible texts were to be the strength. The magazine is associated with the tradition of literary, semi-fictional documentaries.
Ogoniok, as one of the few Russian magazines, survived the political repressions of the Stalinist era and is still functioning today.
Soft cover, 16 pages, dimensions: 25x33cm
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