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He was the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....(The Soviet Union). He ordered every citizen of the Soviet Union to not surrender and use every drop of blood. By saying this he ordered a massacre killing 27 million Soviets during WW2. He is so significant because the Soviets were the ones who invaded Berlin and ended the war in Europe.
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∙ 12y agoStalin was the leader of the USSR (the Soviet Union) during the Second World War and he was an ally to the Great Britain and the USA against Hitler. He was the leader of the Red Army that forced the German troops to surrender at Stalingrad, and later at Kursk. After these turning points the Germans were pushed out of Russia, and the Red army started to liberate Eastern Europe from the Nazis. The allies met at the River Elbe and joined thir forces to destroy Berlin, the centre of the Nazis. The intersting thing was that the great democracies were able to put aside their opposition to the Communist leader, and the Communist ideology during the war, because they considered the Nazi Germany a bigger enemy and a greater threat.
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∙ 9y agoJoseph Stalin made a deal with Hitler to divide Poland which made the United Kingdom and France declare war. Later Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union so Stalin made deals with the Allies. The US Merchant Marine brought supplies, steam locomotives and ammunition to Murmansk, (a port city near Finland.) Stalin held back the Germans on the eastern front and then pushed to Berlin.
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∙ 16y agoThey had been attacked by Germany in what was called Operation Barbarossa and while they took heavy losses, they were able to defend and eventually fight their way back to Berlin.
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∙ 13y agoSoviet Union played not just important but probably the most important role in defeating Nazi Germany destroying 75-80% of German army.
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∙ 10y agoHe was the start to Hitler`s end.
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What role did josef Stalin play during the Soviet Union?
His role was leader of the USSR, but his official title was "General Secretary of the Communist Party".
What role did nationalism play in the fall of the Soviet Union?
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What roles did Russia and the Soviet Union play in Transcaucasia?
People have always seen Transcaucasia has a route for trade and people traveling, the Soviet Union took it over and blocked it.
Who did not play a part in the fall of the Soviet Union?
The Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 26, 1991. Some countries chose not to participate, and some of them were Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, and Armenia.
What role might space continue to play in achieving world peace US and soviet union?
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What role did josef Stalin play during the Soviet Union?
His role was leader of the USSR, but his official title was "General Secretary of the Communist Party".
Why should everyone know about the Soviet Union?
Because they play an important role in World History
What activities did the Soviet Union play?
sorry, i have no idea
What other countries do the NBA play?
Soviet Union
What role did nationalism play in the fall of the Soviet Union?
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What role did Czechoslovakia play in the Soviet Union?
Czechoslovakia was not a part of the Soviet Union. It was amongst of the other countries that were part of the Warsaw Pact and it was a communist country.
What roles did Russia and the Soviet Union play in Transcaucasia?
People have always seen Transcaucasia has a route for trade and people traveling, the Soviet Union took it over and blocked it.
Who did not play a part in the fall of the Soviet Union?
The Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 26, 1991. Some countries chose not to participate, and some of them were Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, and Armenia.
What role did the soviet union play in the US wanting to use the A bomb?
The USSR was a future adversary.
What is atheism and what part did it play in russia?
Atheism is the rejection of belief in the existence of deities and the rejection of claims from organizations and individuals that proclaim to know the will of these theoretical entities and speak in their names. Atheism - like religion - did not play a significant role in the forming of the Russian republic after the fall of the Soviet Union. The atrocities committed during the era of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany are often used by theists as examples of what happens in what they claim were or perceive to be atheist societies - and I take this to be the actually intended second part of this question. The role of atheism in the history of the Soviet Union cannot be separated from the role of theism. The tragedy of the Russian people does not start with the Soviets. To claim that Stalin was an atheist and therefore atheism is to blame for all the atrocities in the Soviet Union is as ludicrous as stating that the Borgias were good popes & devout Catholics.
How important was Joseph Stalin in World War 2?
Was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953 Stalin launched a command economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans and launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization. The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine, such as the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932-1933, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor. During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery; he extended it to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. Targets were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps or exiled. In the years following, millions of members of ethnic minorities were also deported. In 1939, after failed attempts to establish a collective security system in Europe, Stalin decided to conclude a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, followed by a Soviet invasion of Poland, Finland, the Baltics, Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. After Germany violated the pact in 1941, the Soviet Union joined the Allies to play a primary role in the Axis defeat, at the cost of the largest death toll for any country in the war. Thereafter, contradicting statements at allied conferences, Stalin installed communist governments in most of Eastern Europe, forming the Eastern bloc, behind what was referred to as an "Iron Curtain" of Soviet rule, irking United States and the western allies. This launched the long period of antagonism between Stalin's Soviet Union and the western world, lead by United States, known as the Cold War. Stalin made efforts to augment his public image and a cult of personality developed around him; however, his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced his legacy and drove the process of de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.
What role did communist China play in the Cold War?
It alarmed and scared the US while by being communist and making alliances with the Soviet Union. Bonds with the Soviet Union weren't strong due to many border skirmishes and ect.
