Joseph Stalin

My mom BLAMED the Allies! :)

Before taking on the job of the dictator of the Soviet Union, Stalin had several "occupations" They were not always ones where he was paid. He began as:

1. Seminary Student. While at the Tiflis Seminary he joined a secret organization which desired his Georgian homeland to become independent of Russia.

2. After being expelled from the Seminary, he gave private education lessons to young students.

3. He worked as a writer for a socialist newspaper.

4. He also joined an anti Tsarist party and helped in a union strike. This placed him in prison.

5. He remained in "politics" and soon became a Marxist and found friends like Lenin to develop his Marxist ideas.

6. He helped in the Bolshevik Revolution and became a paid party leader and held several positions in the new Communist Russia.

He's been dead for over fifty years, so he's already wherever he's gonna go. But, Hell is a figment of people's imagination that results from an out-dated belief that higher beings exist that was required before science could explain phenomena. So, no, he is not.

formation of a strong system of safety of the country both in Europe, and on Far East boundaries.

No, it did not, in fact it succeeded beyond their expectations. It met its five year goals within four years and a new five year plan was instituted a year earlier than expected. Industrial and agricultural output both increased by over 100% according to the Soviet Union's figures.

He wanted to keep Germany weak and divided

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Joseph Stalin

No he was illiterate.

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union when the United States entered World War 2.

Stalin, for the most part, was a successful leader. Their economy grew, markedly unaffected by the Great Depression, and people usually like leaders who bring prosperity. Stalin's enemies didn't fair well, so that had to be a reason many went along with Stalin's programs. Finally, after the second World War, Stalin's Cold War efforts spawned a new nationalistic pride in the Soviet Union.

kulak in Russian language means fist. So called them Russian people. Kulak means that their property, their money, he holds in his hand, not wanting to share with anyone, lives by oneself. Russky people centuries used to live in the community together to own agricultural land. Even when the Russian peasants were in a personal dependence on the nobles, they considered that the land belongs to them. Ultimately, the reluctance of the nobility to give arable land led to the revolution which resulted in the nobility had been destroyed as a social class. After the revolution, the land was given to the peasants. Some have successfully done business, some not. Those who become successful called kulak. They were the main producers of agricultural products. The main buyer was the state. When Stalin began the industrialization of the country, all the resources went into the construction industry, so the purchase prices have been set very low. In response kulak stopped selling grain to the state. This was in 1927 and 1928. Stalin understood that the kulak took him by the throat, they fail the plans of industrialization. In addition, Stalin knew that most people hate kulak. Then Stalin began to merge the peasants into collective farms, and the kulak evicted, after taking away their property. Many of the kulak were in labor camps, but mainly kulak fled to the cities and became workers. This policy supported the Russian people. This is consistent with the mentality of Russian peasants - Teamwork and moderation in the consumption of material goods. Stalin solved two problems - put under the control of agriculture and created tens of thousands of workers to the industry.

The Soviet Union only had one Political party, which was the Communist Party.

On August 23 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a joint non-aggression pact. This guaranteed that Germany would not attack Russia, nor Russia Germany.

The advantages to Russia included that in 1939 the Russian Army was too weak to resist a Nazi assault (Stalin had executed most of Russia's best generals in the preceding decade); being free of the Nazi threat left Russia able to invade Finland (they did, the Finns gave them a beating); and Russia was able to gain the foreign currency it desperately needed by selling oil to the Nazi war-machine.

Many Americans began to back Germany in its war against England at this point (among the most famous were Charles Lindbergh, Woody Guthrie, and Walt Disney - though Disney havered about his pro-Nazi sympathies).

By the middle of 1941 Hitler's war against England had ground to a stalemate in North Africa. Hitler needed a winnable war, and also hoped to ingratiate himself with anti-Communist elements in America (and even England), so he launched an attack into Russia (Operation Barbarossa) on June 22nd 1941.

Hitler had miscalculated. The Russian army was now strong enough to resist the German invasion. After an initial scorched-earth retreat the Russian line held at Stalingrad and St. Petersburg, and then the Russian army began a slow rollback which eventually destroyed Germany's Panzer capability at Kursk.

Japan had entered the war on December 7th 1941 with its attack on Pearl Harbour, when even the Americans deserted Hitler.

Attacking Russia was Hitler's most costly mistake (among very very many).

Joseph Stalin sent people to Siberia when they didn't agree with him. He would have some people shipped to work camps in Siberia, exiled from the country or imprisoned and/or executed.

Obviously, Stalin did not do those things to everyone who had a disagreement with him. He accepted some disagreements and had many more less extreme methods of dealing with such people.

Stalin might have someone expelled from positions in the organs of the Communist Party or from the Party itself. He might dismiss someone from a job or position. Some people simply fell out of his favor and were relegated to unimportant tasks.

If Stalin did not do those things to the person who disagreed with him, he might do them to a close family member of that person. Stalin had the wife of his Prime Minister and closest adviser during World War 2, Molotov, arrested and imprisoned.

To some people, like Leon Trotsky, Stalin did "all of the above."

He did this even to his own friends and family.

As Stalin became more powerful, he became more ruthless. As he became more ruthless, he became more paranoid and fearful of revenge. He believed that differences of opinion meant lack of loyalty, which he saw as a sign of a potential threat from that person against him.

No, they never met face to face, not even when the Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union was signed.

However, there was an unsubstantiated report that when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa invading Russia with over 4 million troops, there was a telephone conversation in which Stalin and Hitler called each other names.

Just the opposite, Stalin doublecrossed Hitler. Both agreed to simultaneously invade Poland as agreed upon in Moscow in 1939. When the appointed time came Stalin held back his army. Germany was forced to take on Poland by itself, weakening its position and drawing the ire of the Western allies. Stalin was very clever and Hitler a bit naive.

The attack on The USSR in 1941 by Germany may have appeared suicidal but in fact Hitler really had no choice. He was unable to knock out England in 1940, Germany grew weaker fighting England and knew inevitably the USA would come to their aid. He knew he could not trust Stalin again and before he could build up the Red Army into a powerful threat to attack Germany, Hitler preemptively attacked. It was a long shot gamble, and it failed. In reality the war was already decided in 1939 with Stalin's doublecross of Hitler.

During World War 2, Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union.

Yes. Many of Stalin's original adversaries within the Communist Party were erased from official photos. Remember that this was long before the internet or the widespread availability of cameras of any type, so there weren't a lot of redundant images. Many of Stalin's friends and supporters were later erased as well after he turned on them and had them shot.

Communism as a vicious martial dictator.

It was very mixed. Some listened and supported him, while others hated him and listened only because of his cruel tactics.

Stalin was very unhappy with it. He had a treaty with the Czechs promising to give them military assistance - together with France, now one of the signatories of the treaty and backing out of that promise and leaving him hanging out to dry. The treaty convinced Stalin that his European partners could no longer be trusted, which ultimately led him to agree to the Molotov / Ribbentrop Pact with Germany.

Iosif is pronounced (EYE - SIf)

Vissarionovich is pronounced (VI-SORRY-ONO-VEACH)

Joseph Stalin himself was never a soldier, although he was commander-in-chief for the Second World War and played a part in the Russian Civil War, but not as a psychical soldier. He was drafted into the First World War, but was denied for service due to a permanant arm injury.

> Hitler and Stalin did agree to be allies, however Hitler broke the pact by

> invading russia when Stalin was completely unaware to this. When this

> happened Stalin sulked away in his room for 3 or 4 days while the German

> soldiers invaded Russia. When they were still allies though, they agreed

> to split up Poland half for Hitler and half for Stalin.

Mostly true.

> They hated each other. Fascism and communism are polar opposites, so

> Hitler and Stalin viewed each other's method of rule as the wrong way. They

> did have a sort of respect for each other, hence the short-lived

> Non-Aggression Pact between the two countries.

This is inaccurate and based on false assumptions. Stalin may have come to hate or respect Hitler because of the events described above. But they had no sense of being polar opposites due to ideology, these two had just signed a non aggression pact, making them allies just as war was brewing, and after both had spent many years building large militaries.

Not between all three. There was little connection between Mussolini and Stalin, as there was little they could give each other.

Hitler admired Mussolini greatly, taking his idea of fascism and putting a spin on it to create Nazi Germany.

Stalin and Hitler had agreed on the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, signed just before World War 2 started, and saw that both Germany and the Soviet Union remain neutral to each other in the event that either nation were attacked by a third party (another country). It ended in late June 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.