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Basically he gained the Eastern block countries that Russia dominated for 60 years before the Soviet Union fell in 1989.
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There are various reasons that Stalin pretended that he was close to Lenin. For example, he thought that it would gain him support.
Yes, Joseph Stalin did in fact gain power in the soviet Union.He gained a lot of his power after WW2 because he was seen as a hero to the soviet union after the soviets crushed the German military in WW2.
It took Adolf Hitler until the early 1930's to gain political power in Germany. Joseph Stalin was part of the Bolshevik October Revolution in Russia in 1917. Stalin held important political positions , even a dictatorship in the USSR by 1930. To answer the question then, Stalin came first.
Basically he gained the Eastern block countries that Russia dominated for 60 years before the Soviet Union fell in 1989.
Poland
Stalin was determined to capture West Berlin and gain concessions from the West
Stalin
He killed him. They were friends, but he had him killed. Stalin murdered millions.
Stalin didn't gain anything.. But ruined his own hereafter.
Equatorial Guinea
After the death of Lenin
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There are various reasons that Stalin pretended that he was close to Lenin. For example, he thought that it would gain him support.
It was not Stalin who started WWII, but Hitler. He wanted to gain more 'living space' for the German 'Aryans'.
His goal was to gain as much as he could for himself at the Apex of the Society.