Was Joseph Stalin a good man or bad?

Answer 1

he Is a very bad man. He killed millions and many just disappeared over night. He built a canal connecting Moscow with St. Petersburg and killed 25,000 people just doing that. He also flooded many villages in making the canal. If he needed a man who had a certain occupation or ability, he would be arrested, and kept in a prison camp forced to work. I was in Russia last summer and went down the canal to St. Petersburg. Enroute we stopped at a old monastery to see a musem,but the whole place was in ruins with piles of rocks everywhere. After I got home and was watching a history channel program on the canal I saw the monastery I had visited. It had been used as a prison camp. I now wonder if the piles of rocks weren't graves, but I will never know. Also he let 20 million of his own people die during the war with Germany

I, personally, like Stalin but I will give both sides of the debate.

Anti-Stalinists say he killed lots of people in the Holodomor but than again Stalinists say the Statics don't add up.

Also, Stalinists question WHY he would do that?

On the whole, Stalin was a "bad" man in the sense that he was either directly or indirectly the cause of much misery to millions of innocent people and is responsible for, whether directly or indirectly, the deaths of 15 to 20 million people.

Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate the throne because he was indifferent to the misery of the Russian people. Stalin, on the other hand, actively caused misery to the people he was supposed to be governing.

Even the one thing that can be said that he did for the country, making it into a modern industrial power was not without its negatives. IN order to fund his industrialization plans, Stalin had to confiscate grain from the peasant farmers, because that was what the Soviet Union could produce to sell abroad. So he confiscated as much grain as he needed to fulfill his plans, but without worrying whether the farmers who grew it had enough left to live on.

Depends how you look at it. It's not like he had a huge moral and ethics concerns, but his intentions were never to simply cause misery to the population for the sheer fun of it.

Everything has it's negatives. Even increasing health care or education funding, the funding has to come from somewhere. This means something else loses money, or the population pays more taxes.

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin was a horrible leader of the soviet union because he sacrificed millions of innocent lives in order to increase heavy industry in Russia. his policies of rapid industrialization did make Russia the second largest economy in 1955, but his use of force was unnecessary and the soviet people paid a high price for it.

Joseph Stalin was a horrible leader he killed many innocent people for no reason like the peasants. Then Russia had the second best economy in the world at that time but it wasn't worth all the sacrifice.

Another view

Joseph Stalin was a great leader, he led the Soviet Union through its most difficult times in World War 2, which the Soviets suffered most. He is well loved by most Russians (Most Americans wouldn't ever know how great a leader he was) and led the Union to end World War 2 as one of two world superpowers. He was a great leader who Americans shouldn't stereotype just because they didn't like the Soviet Union.

Answer 3

Answer 1

Joseph Stalin was a very strong leader whose leadership was dictatorial. He maintained his position by eliminating those who opposed him politically. He has been accused of committing atrocities against his people, such as mass starvation during his failed farm collectivization program. Dissidents were sent to gulags in Siberia, and in general he tended to more or less bully his people into compliance. However, on some level, he has to be admired. He turned a country that was mainly agrarian into an industrial super power.However, with that said, does industrialization justify murder?

Answer 2

He has been disgraced in Russia and removed from the tomb of Lenin. Stalin has also been proven to have ordered the mass execution of Polish army soldiers and officers in 1939. There 15,000 were murdered.

Answer 4

No. I Don't Think Joseph Stalin was a bad man

Yes, he was. He is considered one of the most evil men in history being responsible for perhaps 20 million deaths as well as misery and suffering to millions more.

Answer 5

Joseph Stalin was a good leader of USSR, however, he was cold-blooded and killed a lot of person in order to become the leader of USSR. He did led russia against Hitler and won though, even though he is a good man, too many blood was shed because of him.

Answer 6

Joseph Stalin was not a good leader. Some have accused the former leader of the Soviet Union of terrorism and the murder of millions of people.