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Joseph Stalin Research Paper

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In the fifth grade I had to do a partner project, immediately I looked at my best friend, excited to work with her. But then the teacher said those words that every student hates. “I’ll pick your partners.” Slowly the teacher listed off who was working with who, than she came to my name. The name she called for me to work with was a name than I hated, a girl I never got along with. She was the smartest girl in the class though, I knew that if I wanted a good grade I would work with her, even though I wanted to work with my best friend. When in a time that we need to work together with someone, we don’t always get to work with who we want to work with. But the people we work with are the ones who give us the best outcome. Similarly, Joseph …show more content…

But Stalin joining with Hitler had more to do with Mutual need than a friendship. Joseph Stalin was a communist, on the other hand Hitler was a fascist. And since those two things are polar opposites, Stalin would not want the spreading of fascism. The belief that all private ownership of land and assets was theft, is communism. But fascism is the belief that all actions should be done for the good of the state. So basically fascism is everything you do is for the state, and communism is everything belongs to everyone. Stalin had a list of reasons to sign the nonaggression pact. But at the top of his list was a grudge, anger at the Western nations for not aligning with him to stop Hitler originally. In the beginning of this, Stalin wanted to work with Britain and France to defeat Germany and to protect Poland. Yet, the three countries could not come up with an even. Neville Chamberlain, Britain's Prime Minister, disagreed with the ways of the Soviet Union (Spartacus 1). Stalin's Military was currently too weak to fight the Nazi’s alone. Joseph Stalin needed time to build up a stronger military. Stalin’s military was weakened by the Red Army Officer Purge in 1937, knowing this, Stalin was smart enough to know he could never handle the Nazi’s by

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