Spreading freedom and letting people live.
Stalin killed, imprisoned, or exiled anyone who even thought of replacing him or who stood in his way.
yes it is one of the ways that the rulers kept power in medieval England but it isn't the most important way
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of Russia.
Stalin used his position as General Secretary and alliances forged against Trotsky to isolate him from the party members. Twice he kept Lenin's testament against him from being read. After Lenin's death, Stalin banished Trotsky and his two main allies from the Communist Party. The allies were later allowed in when Stalin had secured power, but Trotsky was exiled.
The threat of another war kept the US from stopping Stalin's efforts to take over eastern Europe.
Stalin thought it was safer and it kept from everyone becoming disenchanted -harwinder
At Yalta Stalin promised free elections in eastern Europe, but he did not keep his promise.
Stalin wanted to keep the countries he defeated. He wanted them to become part of communist USSR. Truman and Churchill wanted him to give them up and let them have peace and freedom. Stalin was not having it their way. He kept them and they were under communist rule for nearly fifty years.
The threat of another war kept the US from stopping Stalin's efforts to take over eastern Europe.
The downfall of Joseph Stalin was when he died in 1953. Stalin remained in power until his death.
Stalin
He died