Escape from Stalin

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Escape from Stalins Russia?

• A Simulation

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Your Group

• You will be assigned groups for this simulation.
  This is Communism, after all.
• Much of this will be decided be dice, so when you
  get into your group, be ready to come up in front
  to roll. We all roll at once here.

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First Roll Social Group

• 1 Party Elite- Government Worker
• 2 Bodyguard for Stalin
• 3 Factory Worker
• 4 Military Member
• 5 Newspaper Owner
• 6 Rural Peasant

• Once you roll your familys group, come up with a
  quick family story based on what you know about
  your group already. How would they like the
  changes Stalin made? Any possible conflicts? Do
  you like Stalin?
• Take about 4 mins to come up with your tale and a
  name for your group.

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Report Out

• Tell us your story

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Roll 2 Daily Life

• 1 Stand on line for 3 hrs for nothing, all out
  of TP. Doesnt apply to group 1s (Elite)
• 2 One member of your group has been chosen to
  attend Logic Camp if they are successful, this
  is good. If not, you know the rest. (send 1 up)

• 3 You stand in line for 2 hours in the cold and
  get food for your family.
• 4 You attend a play and have a great night.
• 5 Your group is targeted by the Party as
  possible traitors, plead your case or be killed.
• 6 You are safe.

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Roll 3 Totalitarianism

• 1 Write a loyalty oath with your group pledging
  undying loyalty to Comrade Stalin.
• 2 Stalin wants you to bear him a strong Russian
  child. Get some construction paper and get to
  work.
• 3 You have been chosen to write a new slogan for
  the Party. If Stalin likes it you are OK. You
  know the rest.

• 4 The Party puts 2 members of your group in a
  work camp to build a road in Siberia.
• 5/6 Stalins Great Purge is going on, you have
  been deemed as an enemy of the Party. If you are
  from the bodyguard/Elite group, your group loses
  2 people.

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Roll 4 School

• 1 Write your name in Russian, you have 1 minute.
  
• 2 You get good grades and are awarded a spot on
  the ping pong team, get your ball.
• 3 You must answer 7 correct from the numbers
  game or face expulsion and imprisonment.

• 4 Give me three benefits of Communism and 3
  evils of Capitalism.
• 5/6 You have been chosen to re-write the school
  song, write a 20 second song about the greatness
  of Soviet education.

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Roll 5 Escape?

• 1 3 5
• You are given the chance to escape Russia. You
  and your group mates (yes the dead ones also)
  must write a letter to the American Embassy
  explaining why you need to leave Russia
  immediately and be given asylum in the US. You
  must give 5 solid facts that condemn Communism
  and Stalin. You must include our simulation in
  your letter

• 2-4-6
• Your group must write a letter praising Stalin
  and his handling of Russia. You must give 5 solid
  facts that back up why your life/ Russia is
  better now than under the Czars. You must include
  details from the simulation to back it up, even
  if bad stuff happened. Yes dead folks, you too.

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Joseph Stalin
The Father of Mother Russia
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Stalin builds a TOTALITARIAN STATE

• Ideology Government takes total control of every
  aspect of life
• Stalin was a DICTATOR!
• Considered savior of the country, but a mass
  murderer of millions of people.

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INDUSTRIAL POLICIES

• Impossibly high quotas, to increase the output of
  steel, coal, oil, and electricity.
• The government limited the production of consumer
  goods.
• severe shortages of housing, food, clothing, and
  other necessary goods.
• The government chose the workers, assigned them
  jobs, and determined their working hours
• Needed police permission to move

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AGRICULTURAL POLICIES

• In 1928, the government seized over 25 million
  privately owned farms in the Soviet Union.
• It created collective farms large government
  owned farms that each had hundreds of workers
  producing food for the state.
• Stalin used terror and violence to force peasants
  to work on the collective farms (between 5 to 10
  million peasants were killed).

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ART/RELGION

• ART
• Method of propaganda used to rally the workers.
• Artistic style that praised Soviet Life and
  Communist values.
• RELIGION
• Communists aimed to replace religious teachings
• The police destroyed churches and synagogues
  also killed leaders of all faiths or sent them to
  labor camps.

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EDUCATION

• The government controlled all education nursery
  to university.
• Students learned the virtues of communism and
  evils of capitalism
• Professors and students who questioned Communist
  Leaders were threatened or arrested.

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CONTROL METHODS

• Police Terror
• monitored telephone lines, read mail, planted
  spies, and arrested/executed millions of traitors
• The Great Purge (a campaign of terror)
• It was directed at eliminating anyone who
  threatened Stalins power.
• Estimate killed 8 to 13 million people
• Censorship
• -Stalin would not tolerate individual
  creativity wanted conformity and obedience of
  citizens.
• -Government controlled all media (newspapers,
  movies, etc.)

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PROPAGANDA

• Totalitarian states rely on indoctrination or
  brainwashing.
• Propaganda is biased or incomplete information
  used by those in power to sway people to accept
  certain beliefs or actions.
• Soviet newspapers and radio broadcasts glorified
  the achievements of communism, Stalin, and his
  programs.