Stalin as a continuation of Lenin
Communism is like a mining town. The government owns the people. They are forced to buy government food, work for the government, and follow what the government says, or else. No one can escape because their pachecks come from the same people they pay, causing them to did themselves deeper and deeper into debt. And they are forced to breath the cancerous air, just as the Russians were forced to endure the terror. Russia experienced communism in a horrible way: first through Lenin and his Cheka, then through Stalin and his concentration camps.How far would they go to achieve their goals? They would stop at nothing. Stalin's personality was so similar to Lenin's, tha although they may have had separate motivations, Stalin finished what Lenin started by gaining influence through power and using the first Five Year Plan.Lenin and Stalin were of the same personality. Both were extreme activists with an obsession with violence. This quote from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution,
Stalin succeeded, through the Five Year plan, in achieving Lenin's goal of collectivization of the peasantry. It started out as Lenin's ideals and "under Stalin the system expanded, first slowly, then with terrifying speed." (Johnson, pp. 274) Even though at first, the system was a bit disaterous, Stalin went on. He used the communist party as his personal instrument, forcing the peasantry into collective farms. The workers became slaves, which is more or less what Lenin wanted, and production increased greatly. Russia was especially productive in the tractor, steel, and coal industries. Their motivations may have been different, but the fact that Lenin and Stalin both used mass terror to gain power is indisputable. Lenin killed for the revolution. He used the Cheka as his aid. He used it "with complete ruthlessness and on a very large scale." (Pipes pp. 104) Through this secret police force, Lenin exterminated anyone whom he thought was not dedicated to the revolution. "Believing...that violence was an essential element
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