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I am Stalin.
I feel that some people are threats to me.
I need power and more power.
I worry people are after my power.
I pretend I'm greater than god, that I'm god myself.
I am Stalin.

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I am Stalin.
I wonder if anyone is conspiring against me.
I hear that people are trying to pass untrustworthy information to me.
I see a new Russia.
I want power.
I am Stalin.

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I am Stalin.
I understand what to do to achieve my goals.
I say things that are false but win your heart.
I try to eliminate my enemies before they become a bigger threat.
I dream that Russia will become a global superpower.
I am Stalin.

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Explain how Stalin took control over food production for the state. 

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Explain how Stalin took control over food production for the state. 

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Stalin seized land from peasants and kulaks to form collectives farms and to force huge quotas upon farmers to produce for the government. He had his police force collect the quotas of food from each village and household one by one.

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Identify why Stalin started this and what were the effects/consequences for the people of the Soviet Union & Ukraine. 

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Identify why Stalin started this and what were the effects/consequences for the people of the Soviet Union & Ukraine. 

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Stalin envisioned a new Russia that would become a global superpower. So for his master plan, he needs to build tons of power plants, energy plants, and railroads. And this all required labor. So he needs laborers and needs to feed them to do their jobs. He seized land to form collectives to acquire large amounts of food to feed his laborers. Due to him placing huge quotas for food, his people starved. Countless, millions died due to hunger as well it caused famine. It was the worst man-made famine in human history.

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Stalin felt that some important figures around him threaten his position and power and will turn against him. He had those people assassinated or sent to gulags while naming them public enemies to eliminate them.

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The Great Purge happened from 1934 to 1939.

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Observations:
1. Stalin is pointing upward.
2. There is a map of Russia behind him.
3. There are people or citizens shown looking admiringly at him.

The message is that Stalin is a man with a plan for Russia to move higher or forward and that every citizen is supporting him.

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As part of his master plan for industrialization, he sacrificed peasants and their small farms as Kulaks and their lands to the cause of modernization. He assembled large state-owned farms called collectives from the seized lands. In these farms, hundreds of families worked on these farms, producing food for the state and to fuel Stalin's master plan for a new Russia.

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Another way to ensure his people's loyalty and support were through indoctrination. By controlling education, Stalin could ensure that the next generation would not betray him. To ensure that he had the loyalty and support of the next generation, the government controlled all education from nursery schools through the universities. Schoolchildren learned the virtues of the Communist Party.

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Stalin expected and only permit loyalty to nothing but himself. So as the Russian Orthodox Church which many Russians followed was seen as a threat and was forbidden. He destroyed all religious imagery and offers Russia a new god to follow: Himself. So, citizens were firmly convinced that he was their saint, the holiest one. He was revered and worshipped by his people as a god. To allow this to happen, he targeted churches and priests. He destroyed churches and executed the priests by chopping off theirs, shooting them down, throwing them to jail, and burying them alive to cut off the threat of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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The NKVD was the secret political police force of Joseph Stalin. They would do the dirty work to enforce Stalin's will. They monitored telephone lines, read mail, and planted informers everywhere. The secret police arrested and executed millions of so-called traitors to eliminate anyone who threatened his power.

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Through the use of propaganda like record speeches, artwork, posters, and the news, he carefully cultivated an image of a benevolent patriarch, the calm and self-confident leader that his people can place their hopes and trust on for him to manipulate. By manipulating and maintaining his public image, an image that remained untarnished by his ruthless actions.

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Power was everything to Stalin since he didn't know anything else other than power. He was the head of state, the supreme leader of the party and Russia. He would decide he had to do away with all of his rivals or enemies that threaten him. He did anything to ensure his power and murder was his trademark method to ensure it.

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Stalin's influence was everywhere in his people's life, both in public life and private life. There are pictures of him in every home. His people are always thanking him for creating their lifestyle the way it is every single day. Stalin controlled their lives, decided the fate of their lives, and controlled their actions.

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What did Stalin use to carry out his terror?

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What did Stalin use to carry out his terror?

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Stalin sent some traitors to the Gulags. Others were shot down, executed, or imprisoned. He also deployed tactics of assassination to rid of his political threats.