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    government, right after Bolshevik had advanced the action of free project. World War II, Roosevelt and British head Winston Churchill made a choice to allow access to a second front, this would reroute the Nazis and to allow the Red Army away in Stalingrad. Stalin didn’t like this delay and he also, didn’t like way that the United States and Great Britain reject the transmittance of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. After the war, Truman's decided to help Great Britain. This act brought on hate

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    approached the Soviet capital Moscow, Stalin used the scorched earth defensive police, which is he basically destroyed any supplies and infrastructure that could benefit the enemy. With that strategy, Stalin was able to defeat the German in the Battle of Stalingrad which lasted form August 1942 to February 1943. The Soviet dictator died in March 5, 1953, Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow,

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    ​ About Joseph Stalin: Born in December 21, 1879 Joseph Stalin the dictator of the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics, grew up in Gori, Russia to become the ruler of the Soviet Union and the leader of the world's communism for around 30 years. Stalin was known for his crude and cruel ways. He was known to kill anyone who threatened power. His pitilessness was astonishing and his casualties ended the lives of several millions of Soviet individuals. Not to mention, he also drove a worldwide battle

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    Joseph Stalin was born on December 21, 1879, originally named Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He was born in a village known as Gori in the Russian province of Georgia. His father was a shoemaker, and a drunk. He left Gori when Stalin was young to find work in the city of Tiflis. With his father gone, Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the biggest impact on his life--it was she who led him in his education. Joseph started out at the local Gori Church School. After attending there, he went to the

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    Adolf Hitler was born in the Austrian town of Braunau on April 20, 1889, Adolf was the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. Adolf had an incomplete education and was mostly self-taught. In Viena (1907-13) Adolf could not secure his place at art academy, he lived like a vagrant and aged seeing his racist prejudices grow in front of the spectacle of a cosmopolitan city, whose intellectual and multicultural vitality was completely incomprehensible to him. From that time dates his conversion

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