Stalin
Through terror and control, Joseph Stalin completely suppressed dissent and achieved close to total obedience.Along with Hitler and Mussolini, Stalin is revered as one of the three most powerful and influential dictators of the twentieth century. Through terror and control, Joseph Stalin completely suppressed dissent and achieved close to total obedience. Under the leadership of Stalin the Russian population was beaten into servitude. He chose his victims with stony ruthlessness eliminating millions of enemies, both real and imagined. All totalitarian regimes demand “total” control of the society and its economy by dictatorial power … and this is what Stalin gained, total control of everything. Stalin’s reorganisation of the Soviet Union’s resources through the Five Year Plans faced numerous setbacks stemming from the Kulaks negative reaction to the principles of collectivisation. The measures he took to discipline those who refused his will involved either death by execution or starvation. This resulted in at least 10 million peasants perishing from 1932 to 1933. Both the old Bolsheviks and the alleged “right wing intelligentsia who opposed Stalin’s ideals were eliminated in this bloodbath. (World Book, 2000, p.826) “Whe
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