Galina Andreyevna, 70
pensioner

How can people really believe that 21 million people went imprisoned in four years under Stalin? Where could he have put them all?

Think about it: Chelyabinsk was a city of 200,000 before the war. If this was a major stop for prisoners being sent to Siberia, where did they all stay? There was only one prison here! No, people are just confused. There's no way that many people were repressed.

Compare Stalin to today's leaders: He never once raised prices. Never once! He even lowered them when he could. He was a man who lived for the people. Stalin always thought of the people, whatever he did. We all cried when he died. He was poisoned by Beria, you know.

I was wounded in World War II, when I was 16. There's still shrapnel all in my chest. I fought for my country, and yet look at how I live now! I can hardly afford to feed myself! Is this any way to live?!

You write this down: if anything happens to me for speaking out, for telling it like it is, I died in the name of truth. You write that down.

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