Joseph Stalin Nonaggression Alliance

During WWII, with his nonaggression pact with Stalin, Hitler annexed Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the USSR and attacked eastern Poland. Although Hitler honored the pact, he only did so until he found it convenient to attack the USSR in June 1941. In December 1941, he assumed personal command of war strategy. (Warlimont, 1964). It only led to disaster. In early 1943, he refused to admit defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad. He brought death to lots of German troops. As the war turned against Hitler, his horrible extermination of the

Stalin was abused, mistreated when he was, and had many misfortunes as a child. His father abused him and the village children of Gori treated him as inferior. He learned to be cruel and mistreat others who crossed him. His rough childhood turned him into one of the most cruel people in the world.

As leaders, Adolf Hitler was more brutal than Stalin. Hitler was very manipulative, thus, having the ability to convince and sway his country to ignore the law and murder millions of people. Hitler as a person was a lot worse than Stalin because he was determined have world domination. Hitler was very scheming, which lead to the Holocaust. He had the power to convince Nazis to murder 6 million out of 9 million jews living in Europe at the time1. Hitler had made the Germans believe that in case of another war, the Germans will not be exterminated, but instead the Jews would. As Albert Speer quoted, “I was present in the Reichstag session of January 30, 1939 when Hitler guaranteed that, in the event of another war, the Jews, not the Germans,

Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924. In 1928 Stalin began the First Five-Year Plan, an ambitious attempt to quickly modernize the Soviet economy. In the speech below, given in 1933 to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Stalin explained the goals and results of the Five-Year Plan.

Throughout his life Stalin completed his dream of power and ambition. Though most people know him as a ruthless tyrant dictator, he improved Russia through industrialization and military might. He lived up to his name “steel” and made his mark in Russian history both good and

Almost everyone knows what a monster Adolf Hitler was, but most people do not know that one of the great ally leader of World War II, Joseph Stalin, had committed even greater atrocities than Hitler. Joseph Stalin was a ruthless and yet diligent dictator of the Soviet Union, whose rise to power influenced a multitude of major events in his country’s history. Due to Stalin’s impactful reign, he made the Soviet Union become a global superpower, underwent difficult hardships such as the Great Famine in the Soviet Union, and after his death, caused the Soviet Union to go through a process known as de-Stalinization.

Joseph Stalin is known to be “one of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history” (bbc.co.uk). Stalin became general secretary of the Communist Party, which had given him the control that he had been looking for (bbc.co.uk). Soon after, he was granted dictatorship of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin had died (historyplace.com). Many people did not like the way that Stalin was ruling. People wanted their own independence from Stalin and he did not take that very well. In 1929, Stalin had believed that many Ukrainian scholars, scientists, religious leaders, etc. were planning a riot against him. Without even being listened to during a trial, they were killed or deported immediately to prison camps (blogspot.com).

Stalin thought that Russia was far behind the rest of the western world. He devised a 5 year plan to get Russia up to speed with the rest of the world. This is similar to how Napoleon built the windmill. Stalin also created a centralized agriculture

The second source is based on the non aggression pact between Japan's leader Kyoto, Germany's dictator named Hitler and Russia's leader Stalin. This pact insured that they wouldn't get involved in the war unless they were being attacked or they had to self defend themselves or an ally. The author portrays how selfish and greedy this pact was. It insured their own safety and that's all they ever cared about, themselves. It also implies that these non aggression pacts were secretive by the way both Kyoto and Stalin are both keeping a pact out of the view of Hitler because they didn’t him to know about it. But at the same time Hitler is holding a pact behind the back of Kyoto so that only Stalin knew. This represents the greed and shadiness between these pacts and countries. They all look very suspicious and they are pointing their rear ends away from each other to insure their own safety, this represents in times of war where they will not get involved if there is

     Hitler came to power in 1935. His basis of hatred was director towards the Jews. One reason for the hatred towards the Jews was because his mother was sick with cancer, and it was a Jewish doctor that could not save her. Hitler had no real friends when he came to power, and he killed all of the ones he did have. Stalin came to power in 1924. They called him, “The man of Many Faces”. The people that really knew him as a person were terrified of him. All of Stalin’s generals were in fear of him, but stayed faithful to him. When Hitler attacked, he moved in with precision accuracy and moved quickly through the town of village he was destroying. Stalin on the other hand took a four to five year period of time to strike all of the villages and towns. Even in death Stalin was a killer. Stalin was paranoid by an assassination on him. To prevent assassination, Stalin would never sleep in the same

Stalin formed a centralized government that did not tolerate any other opinions. He wanted to control everyone and all parts of their life. Over the next several years, Stalin started to bring in all industrial and agricultural systems under control of the government. This was done under what was called Stalin’s Five year plans. One of the main things Stalin did was seize farmer’s lands and force them to give all of their produce to the government. The government would then sell the produce to other countries for profit and leave the farmers and their families with almost nothing. Stalin also took control over all parts of the government and military. He eliminated any leaders who did not agree with him and follow his commands. Stalin strengthened the Secret Police that had been created by Lenin, after the revolution, and all Russian citizens were afraid to say anything against Stalin and the communists because the Secret Police were

In the 20th century, Hitler ruled over Germany with a strong, brutal fascist ideology. His manner of securing power was very much based on fear and manipulation. Compared to Stalin, who gained power through the torture of his own people for his gain, Hitler's ways were much worse, using scare tactics to make people follow him and playing mind games with other countries and their leaders. Also, what he believed about the enemies of his state was extremely based on his own feelings and ideas. In addition, the way he attempted to make his nation great and mighty was very intense and shocking to many.

Later in the war, on the other side of Europe, the Nazis had struggled fighting with Britain and postponed their invasion on Great Britain. Hitler then pulled a surprised attack onto the Soviet Union, also called “Operation Barbarossa”. It was the largest ground invasion in mankind history at the time, including 3 million Nazi soldiers who invaded the Soviet Union. Stalin immediately ordered a scorched-earth policy, which meant destroying anything that could be useful to the enemy, the Nazis. The Soviets were in big trouble as the Nazis were closing in on Moscow.

As Lee states, the Tukchavesky Affair in June 1937 purged 3-7% of the Red Army’s high commanding generals on the basis that they were involved in a Trotskyist conspiracy against Stalin. Figes argues that these purges were a pre-emptive move conducted by Stalin in order to eliminate a potential rival and source of opposition to Stalin’s planned purges against the nomenklatura. In turn, Stalin was determined to assert his power and control over the military through the use of purges, evident in Stalin’s authorisation of the arrest of over thirty-five thousand serving officers (Wood). By the end of the 1930s, the Red Party had been decimated in regards to both manpower and influence, as ninety-percent of the army had been purged, including many of its experienced leading officers (Wood). This not only increased Stalin’s authority but also led to the inexperience of the armed services during times of German aggression and the threat of a European war. Russia was consequently unable to defeat Germany in 1941 and became vulnerable to the horrors of war. Hence, although the utilisation of terror and show trials and purges perpetuated the growth of Stalinism for it provided Stalin with critical power over the army, it also consequently led to the weakening and failures of the Russian defence

Stalin had individuals arrested without any reasonable explanation for their arrest, other than they were a threat to the regime and his quest for total control. He had the power to arrest and do away with anyone that disagreed or posed a threat to the regime. This compromised the individual’s rights in that the people could never feel safe because there was no rhyme or reason to the way people were targeted in Russia. Hitler wanted to create a perfect and flawless race. Therefore, he ordered the Nazi soldiers to round up anyone who was Jewish, homosexual, mentally and physically disabled, and even the Jehovah’s Witnesses.