Joesph Stalin
Less than a month before Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II, he signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin. Less than two years later, he broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union in the early morning hours of June 22, 1941. There was plenty of evidence for German aggression before the war broke out, yet Stalin nevertheless signed the pact, which contained the secret protocol that divided Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. The reason for signing the pact was complex, yet one of the most important ones was the domestic factors. Among them, the terrible effect of the purges during the 1930s on the population, economy and especially the army. The purges were set off on December 1, 1934 with the murder of Sergei Kirov. He was a member of the Politburo, leader of the Leningrad party apparatus and had considerable influence in the ruling elite. His concern for the workers in Leningrad and his skill as an orator earned him considerable pop!ularity. Stalin used his murder as a pretext for launching a broad purge that would claim hundreds of thousands of victims and have lasting repercussion felt to this day. Stalin never visited Leningrad again and directed one of his most vici
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Approximate Word count = 1290
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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