When he died. There are some suggestions he was poisoned. I think it was 1953.

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FDR, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, Mussilini. hirihito

He believed in himself only.

A2: He believed in communism. He believed that in order for a country to be strong, you must be atheist. He had many beliefs, and generally held all the communist views.

Stalin's goals for the Soviet Union included a line of countries defending it--he wanted the Soviet Union to be the world's dominant power.

First and foremost, Stalin's economic plan was to increase the Soviet Union's industrial capacity. To do this, Stalin instituted a series of Five Year Plans geared mainly toward increasing industrial output, but also increasing its agricultural output.

Stalin had stated in a speech that Russia had been conquered in the past by many invaders because it was a backward country, especially economically. He believed that the Soviet Union had fallen behind the West by 150 years. He stated that in order for socialist Soviet Union to survive among the capitalist countries, it must catch up to the West within 10 years. The first plan set goals for increasing industrial capacity that were met in 4 years, although some speculate that those figures were as much Propaganda as were his political pronouncements.

What few know is that he "realized" his industrial goals on the backs of the peasant farmers, starving millions by taking their crops for export to obtain the money needed to industrialize the country.

Stalin needed to increase the country's industrial and agricultural capacity and do it quickly so he instituted the Five Year Plans. He realized that the Soviet Union was still a backward nation compared to the western world in both industry and agriculture. He gave a speech on February 4, 1931, he explained some reasons why the first one had been started.

First he pointed out that Russia had been conquered by the Mongols, Turks, Swedes, Poles, Anglo-French and the Japanese primarily because it was militarily, culturally, industrially and agriculturally backward compares to those capitalist states. As long as that condition persisted, the Soviet Union would be vulnerable to further attacks. In the speech he stated:

"We have fallen behind the advanced countries by fifty to a hundred years. We must close that gap in ten years. Either we do this or we will be crushed."

Joseph Stalin's outcome was one of epic proportions. The USSR took over much of Europe and became a world power.

The achieved their goal of industrializing Russia quickly, but conditions for working didn't matter and people suffered. It didn't help that his plan to gro wmore food failed miserable, causing famine all over the Soviet Union, especially in the Ukraine.

Joseph Stalin became the Soviet leader through a process. He was given his initial power by Lenin at his death. However, Lenin wanted Leon Trotsky to rule the Soviet Union. Stalin hid this fact. He then allied other leaders and isolated his main enemy, Leon Trotsky. He eventually succeeded in having Trotsky expelled from the party (and later the entire country), He then repeated the process to eliminate all threats until he was made the absolute ruller of the Soviet Union.

Five-Year-Plan

A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.

Stalin had light-dark brown hair in his youth, as can be seen in his police mugshot in 1902. But as he aged his hairs became jet black

The main purpose of the many purges and public trials that too place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was to suppress political dissidence. Through the purges and public trials people that spoke out against the government were made an example of through their punishments.

The person who took Stalin's place after his death of a brain hemorrhage was Nikita Khrushchev. This man started the cold war with the United StatesNikita Khrushchev

By using police terror, destroying enemies of Stalin, monitoring telephone lines, reading mail, and planting informants.

Cautious and always suspicious, but yes. Stalin had already been receiving US Aircraft (especially the P-39 Aerocobra), warships, rifles, ammunition, food, and medical supplies from the US.

Stalin would most likely have wanted them to for the reason that if the Western Front were to be strengthened, Germany would have to strengthen their forces against them. This would require pulling troops off the Eastern Front and therefore from his.

If the Western Front were to lose or collapse altogether, troops and equipment would be flooded to the Eastern Front. With the abundance of new numbers, Stalin's forces wouldn't have stood a chance.

improved for a while, but then became more strained

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Russian Propaganda had a lot of Nationalistic views. There were a lot of movies that had Russia as the hero of the day. There posters delt with rising the ego of the country and demeaning the other countries.

There were many factors that led people to like Stalin. The main one was probably the 'cult of personality'. This meant he could manipulate how he was seen as a leader through images, films, poems etc( which were only allowed if they glorified him) and thus fool people into thinking he was a good leader. For example, during the time of the 1930's, he would have images of him and children, creating his idea he was the 'father of Russia'. He also used the 'cult of personality' to lead people to believe he had led them throughout the war to success in 1945. In reality, it was more likely the mistakes of the Germans and organisation of military strategies by others which had saved them. Stalin at the time of the war did not know what to do! After the war, he glorified himself even more through posters, showing him as God-like. He manipulated these kind of events to create a likeable image of himself. Also, although the gulags( labour camps) were his idea, many in the camps sent him letters asking him to save them, as they believed such a 'great leader' would never let such awful things happen. It just shows how badly the idea he was a good leader was indoctrinated in their heads through all of these things. He killed millions and cost so much dear human life, yet even at his funeral many were in tears and distraught their 'great' leader had died.