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cruel, merciless, opportunist

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Deceitful, paranoid,

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Deceptive, ruthless, regulating

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STALIN: Deceiving,  Power Hungry, and Vicious

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In a film from 1937 about the October Revolution, Stalin is shown to be a confidant of Lenin, helping him plot the revolution. However, in reality, Stalin was never there.

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Stalin created a Command Economy which made the central government responsible for all economic decisions. He also tailored laws concerning marriage and child-raising to attempt to create his ideal Communist society

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Anyone suspicious severely punished

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Stalin used the propaganda to paint the image that he was a caring and loving ruler of Russia.

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Stalin was scared and suspicious that people would overcome him so he purged groups of people and had them tortured

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He censored anything that didn't portray him in a good way and made sure propaganda made him look like a god like figure

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he tortured and abused his citizens to gain more control of the government

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Stalin was deceiving because he looked like a father-figure. He always posed with children to seem like he could "take care" of the Soviet Union. Instead he had massive deaths

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Stalin was very power hungry. He basically forced people to side with him and if they did not he would have his secret service take them away.

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Famine killed 5 million people, and Stalin believes that one death is tragic, millions is just a statistic.

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Stalin had pictures taken and art made of him with children so that he was known as "the father of Russia". He appeared to be a kind, strong leader, when in reality he caused so much death and torture. He still maintained his good reputation even though he ordered people to be executed and deported to labor camps. People actually wrote letters to Stalin begging him to save them, because in their minds he had nothing to do with their suffering and was a savior.

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Stalin was very careful of the image he portrayed. In the pictures and paintings of him he was depicted as not only a kind father figure and leader, but also changed the way he looked in them. Art he commissioned made him tall and broad shouldered to appear strong to others.

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Stalin killed millions of people between the famine, the labor camps, and his purges, but had no remorse.