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Who Is Joseph Stalin Remembered Today

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Faith Kiehl
Mrs. Shipley
Honors English 9
1 May 2017
Josef Stalin
• Between 1922 and 1953, the Soviet Union was ruled by Josef Stalin.
• He followed Vladimir Lenin as Soviet leader, and was the USSR’s first General Secretary of the Central Committee.
• He transformed his country from largely agricultural economy into an industrialized society.
• He led the country during World War II and helped defeat the Nazi Germany.
• He turned the Soviet Union into a superpower that could be rivaled only by the United States
• He had a different side to him as well, which delighted in countless arrests, executions, and purges, which is why he is still remembered today as one of the cruelest leaders in modern history.
• Millions died under his direct orders; …show more content…

• He sent potential enemies to forced labor camps or had them executed.
• In WWII, Stalin allied with the US and Britain, but afterwards, Stalin became involved in a tense relationship with the West, which is known as the Cold War.
Joseph Stalin launched multiple five-year plans to try to help transform the peasant society of the Soviet Union into an industrial superpower.
• He wanted complete control over the economy and all farming by the government, which was an idea that was developed in his plans.
 Millions of farmers refused to cooperate and were shot and killed on spot.
 The forced collectivization led to famine throughout the Soviet Union that killed millions.
• Stalin tried to eliminate people who were against him by ruling with terror and a totalitarian grip.
• He encouraged distrust between citizens so that they'd spy on each other, and he wanted to encourage and expand the powers of the secret police.
• Stalin began the Great Purge in the second half of the 1930s.
 It was multiple campaigns designed to get rid of the people he felt were a threat to the military, and Communist Party, and

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