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The Soviet Union wants to control all the land of Germany after they were defeated. The Soviet sought to make Germany a Communist government. The Soviets would have cut connections from roads to blockades in Berlin to further influence the people that they were being a Communists nation. - Niles Wright / Chris Payen

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https://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Soviet2.html
https://academic.oup.com/past/article-abstract/210/suppl_6/103/1425685/The-Soviet-Union-after-1945-Economic-Recovery-and

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-explode-atomic-bomb

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-warsaw-pact-is-formed

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Everyone is equal. No racism, no sexism and no homophobia. Everyone is the same class so there is no class at all.
Stephen

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In 1949, The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, named “First Lightning.” The Soviets have measured the radius of the blast and destruction. When the United States learned about the bomb, the situation between the Soviet Union and U.S. grow more intense. Americans sensed that the world was a much more dangerous and threatening place. - Niles Wright

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After WWII and Stalin's death, the Soviet Union was struggling getting their economy back together. Khrushchev the new Soviet leader, tried tinkering and fixing the economy. After this short-lived attempt at revamping the economic system, planners reverted to drafting comprehensive centralized plans of the type first developed under Stalin. The Soviet State controls every phase of economic production including wage rates and working conditions. Certain industries deemed essential for Soviet objectives are supplied lavishly with labor and resources, while the unessential industries are drained for the support and growth of the former. Countless plants and factories, valuable machines and equipment, materials and supplies, rolling stock, rails, and even nails, were shipped to Soviet Russia. This productive equipment undoubtedly contributed greatly to the rapid economic recovery indicated by Soviet statistics.
Vinny and MJ

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The ideal government in Communism is not government at all. You don't have to answer to any higher power and only have to work for the common good of your fellow man. The only aspect of government we have is a force to make sure you work for your fellow man and be unselfish. Since their is no government to restrict you you can live your life to its fullest.
Stephen

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Power of Government Leaders by Jay Williams '17

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Power of Government Leaders by Jay Williams '17

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Joseph Stalin's Powers:
-launched a series of five-year plans in order to transform the Soviet Union into an industrial superpower
-expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on one another and had millions of people killed or sent to the Gulag system of forced labor camps.
-His government controlled the Soviet media.
-prosecuted a reign of terror, purges, executions, exiles to labor camps and persecution in the postwar
-established communist governments throughout Eastern Europe, and in 1949 led the Soviets into the nuclear age by exploding an atomic bomb
-North Korea’s communist leader Kim Il Sung permission to invade United States-supported South Korea

Goals of the USSR
-to spread communism throughout the world starting Eastern Europe.
-further become an international superpower

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Religious, press, and speech freedoms - There are none of these freedoms in the USSR, Stalin has the final say in what is put out into the world from the USSR.
Life for citizens was very restricted, as all the basic freedoms that America / capitalism has are not offered for those in communist USSR.

Christopher Payen

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The Communist allies  included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Northen Korea, and Bulgaria. They also signed the Warsaw Pact, a treaty  signed in Warsaw that called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force. - Niles Wright