Joseph Stalin

The failure of 'collective security' was one of the reasons that led Stalin to favour direct negotiations with Nazi Germany. These culminated in the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of August 1939.

Equally non-liberal brutal dictators.

Stalin was communist. While he enforced his doctrines in ways that are commonly associated with conservative dictators, his political views were still very left-wing.

That confirms and explains his opposition to liberals, whose views (a generally capitalist economic structure, and democratic, less authoritarian, government, for example) often made them a primary target for communists and communist gangs.

they were josh and Marie jacqurad

stalin was portrayed as a bully and a harsh man. He was horrid to the people around him and even his family killed themselves because of his harshness

Premier is sometimes a synonym for Prime Minister. Under parliamentary systems, the PM (or Premier) is the leader of the ruling party, and thus the Head of Government.

Within some countries (such as Australia) there are individual states under the Federal Government. Each of the states is led by a Premier.

he saw it as an outgrowth of imperialism and capitalism

All leaders use some type of manipulation, especially evil ones like Stalin and Hitler...

Joseph Stalin's embalmed body shared a spot next to Vladimir Lenin, from the time of his death in 1953 until October 31, 1961, when Stalin was removed as part of de-Stalinization and buried outside the walls of the Kremlin.

the people were in constant fear of upsetting the authorities because they knew that if they were found guilty of any act against Stalin or the soviet union, they would be killed. Stalin would have anyone he saw as a threat shot in the back of the head. if they were lucky, they would receive the lesser punishment of being sent to one of the gulags, which were inescapable prisons where prisoners were likely to be starved and torchered until they died. another punishment, which was supposed to be the least severe, was to be sent to work on a ukranian farm. the people in ukrain were starving and ridiculously mistreatted by Stalin, and millions of them starved to death during the world's only man-made famine that lasted for all of Stalin's rule. there was no shortage of food during this time. Stalin kept the food from them to give to the urban workers, but that is a completely different issue.

Stalin killed 22 -30 million

Many millions. It's difficult to be precise, and many were killed by the Russians as well as the Germans, but the likely figure is in excess of 20 Million. USSR: 10M Germany: 3.5M

Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the USSR and Harry S Truman was the President of the US at the time the Cold War began, at the end of WW II, and both of these leaders created the national policies upon which the Cold War was based.

Constructivism

It is possible that Stalin could have continued it and industrialized under it, but it was too hard already under his current Communist regime. The NEP and its underlying capitalist values just could not let Stalin's power remain as effective.

That they divide up Germany to try and prevent something like what the Nazis did from ever happening again.

Stalin wan't a president, he was the 'General Secretary of the Soviet Union'. But he was the de facto leader from 1924 after Lenin's death, until his own death in 1953.

By the way; its the Soviet Union, not 'reunion'.

He did get his buffer zone, but it fell over the years

Stalin spread communism and started Gulogs and the Soviet Union

Joseph Stalin was the Soviet leader responsible.

A satellite state is one who's government is heavily influenced or controlled by another country.

In the Soviet Union, the satellite states included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, German Democratic Republic (in what is now eastern Germany), Poland, Romania, and Hungary. Yugoslavia was also considered to be a Soviet satellite state, though it broke away from the Soviet Union in 1948. Albania was the same, breaking from the Soviet Union in 1960.

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Soviet Union interest in Finland, Estonia,Latvia and Lithuania had to do with security. Stalin feared these countries could serve as base of operations for Germany or West as a whole in an event of attack against Soviet Union.

On the other hand, seizing control over these countries would provide Soviet Union with a firmer foothold in area of Baltic Sea.

Byzantium and Russia were different empires with many rulers in their long existence as empires.In Byzantium the emperor was called Autocrat and in the late Russian empire it was called Czar or Tsar.

The records say he died of natural causes, but there are people who believe he was poisoned. Those people do not know who to blame for the poisoning.

Based on my knowledge, Joseph Stalin's greatest mistake was to trust Adolf Hitler by sending a representative to sign the Non-aggression Pact on May 15, 1941.