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Children had to join youth organisations were they were taught how to be a good socialist/communist. This education was mostly focused on outdoor activities and the importance of clean living. From 8 to 10 years old, they would join the Octobrists, from 10 to 16 the Pioneers and from 19 to 23 the Komsomol.

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People lost their freedom under Stalin's regime. The government had absolut control of media, and people only watched, heard, and read what the government allowed.

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Fitness and athletics were the source of recreation for the average Russian citizen. Each Russian had the right each year to have a holiday - it was unheard of during the days of the czar. The state provided clubs, recreational fields, etc.

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The country did become a major industrial nation by 1939 and the progress was unmatched in the era of the Depression in America and western Europe, where millions were unemployed. Russia’s military forces were benefiting from the industrial growth, with new weapons and equipment.

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Stalin's 5 year plans surrounded around econimic growth and development. The main focus of the first one was to develop heavy industry and arrangement of agriculture. Consequently, consumer goods' cost suffered a drastic fall. The second plan aimed to continue developing the first one's goals, yet this regimentation led to extreme famine which caused millions of deaths, particularly in Ukraine. While the third one's principal focus was the production of weapons, the fourth one went back to heavy industry and military development, which angered the Western powers.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Five-Year-Plans

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People had access to much better medical care some 10 years before the National Health Service was introduced in GB. The number of doctors also increased greatly, and the facilities were better equiped.

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Kolkoz was an English collective farm in the Soviet Union which was operated by peasants from various households on land own by the state.  It began as a voluntary association of peasants, yet it became the dominant form of agricultural enterprise resultant of a state program confiscation of private holdings launched in 1929. State authorities, government officials,  were mainly in charge of operational control. By 1935, a portion of the land in which the collective farm was established was divided with the purpose of allowing each household garden plots.The number of households in the kolhoz began to increase, and by 1958, the government distriuted heavy equipment to the farms.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/kolkhoz
https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/k/o.htm

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The word gulag basically means Main Camp Administration, and The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps established during the Stalin period. The prisons encarcerated about 18 million people throughout its lifespan, and it's network held from 2,000 to 10,000 people in over hundreds of labor camps. However, Stalin was responsible for this massive increase in prison population, since he saw  the camps as an efficient manner to boost industrialization in the Soviet Union. In fact, it later became a destination for his victims of the Great Purge. The living conditions were inhumane, were prisoners were forced to work up to 14 hours a day under extreme weather ocasionally. Deaths by starvation, disease or exhaustion were very common, and many others were because of execution. The Gulag system was so fierce and harsh that it still impregnates Russian society today,

https://www.history.com/topics/russia/gulag#:~:text=The%20Gulag%20was%20a%20system,dictator%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union.&text=At%20its%20height%2C%20the%20Gulag,2%2C000%20to%2010%2C000%20people%20each.

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This was a remorsless political campaign in which Stalin decided to eliminate any member of the Communist Party, anyone linked to it, or whomever he considered a threat to his government. He took this measurements because, when he was rising to power, some members of the Bolshevik party, which were led by Lenin, started to question his authority. Even though it only lasted from 1936 to 1938, it is estimated that at least 750,000 people were executed. This  movement inflicted great terror across the Soviet Union and had a long-lasting effect on society. Stalin eventually "succeeded" and eliminated all of the original Bolshevicks who participated in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

https://www.history.com/topics/russia/great-purge

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The NKVD, People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated in Russian, was Joseph Stalin's secret police force, which expanded its control over the country, and was recognised for political repression and having greatly contributed to the carrying out of the Great Purge. Stalin was paranoid and needed a way to maintain his power, so he implemented the Kolkhaz, the Gulag and used the NKVD as his own private force for eliminating people he thought disolyal. The NKVD's main purpose was to enforce national security, yet they took it way too far and arrested people for the most insignificant things, inspiring fear and encouraged people ratting out their neighbours, friends, etc.

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/international-crimes/stalins-security-force/

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Oppressive behavior has an adverse effect on political behavior and severe situations, because more and more people believe that propaganda of violence will increase political participation.

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Stalin's control of Russia means that freedom is one thing people lose. The Russian people must read the content allowed by the state, look at the content allowed by the state, and listen to the content allowed by the state. The state's control of the media is complete. Those who try to listen, watch, etc. will be severely punished. Everyone knows about the labor camp, which is enough to act as a deterrent.

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The country did become a major industrial nation by 1939 and its progress was unmatched in the era of the Depression in America and western Europe where millions were unemployed.

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Churches were constantly attacked throughout the 1930s, since Communism had implemented the idea that religion was the "opium of the masses". Churches were shut down and church leaders were arrested. Stalin believed that people who worshipped God were defying his position, since they worshipped Him rather than Stalin.

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Women used to have more freedom during Lenin's rule, but Stalin came and changed things, since he made divorce harder. Even though this might be seen ad a good thing, since he was trying to prevent homeless children situations, it forced families to stay together even when they were tremendously unhappy, unhealthy, or disfunctional. Also, restrictions were made on abortions, so women were forced to deliver their babies even when they weren't prepared.

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Stalin considered anyone with talent as a threat, and his increasingly paranoid behaviour led him to kill or emprison them. An example of this were officers who had had previous experiences with other governments and had priviledged minds.

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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/russia-1900-to-1939/life-in-ussr-under-stalin/

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Russia’s military forces were benefiting from her industrial growth.