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Joseph Stalin was a soviet dictator who held power from the 1920s until he died in 1953. He was born in Gori, now known as Georgia, Russia. His family was poor, but Stalin was very involved in politics from a young age, and was imprisoned multiple times for helping the bolsheviks by committing crimes such as kidnapping and robbery. Stalin is one of the most famous dictators of all time, most notably for his use of work camps known as Gulags, his 5 year plan to turn Russia into a world superpower, and for how many lives were lost in the process

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When Stalin was in power, he implemented a 5 year plan hoping to advance Russia from the medival farm country it was to the global superpower he envisioned. Russia was not industrialized like the other countries were at that time, so that meant they had to increase production rates and work longer hours. Under his rule, there was free education and therewere over 61,000 schools built, and thousands of colleges as well. This increased the graduate percentage, giving more people the chance to get better jobs. There was also free healthcare, free pension, and free apartments. This drastically improved the quality of life. There were garantueed holidays off of work, and stalin worked towards sex equality and clearing up crime by sending criminals to Gulags.

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What bad things did Stalin do for Russia (USSR)

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What bad things did Stalin do for Russia (USSR)

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Although Stalin helped advance Russia drastically, there was alot of not so great things going on. Stalin got his way whenever he wanted,and if he didnt he would kill you. He killed anyone who challenged his ideals, anyone who could take his power, and anyone he just didnt like. He sent people away to prison camps, and is said to have caused between 20 and 60 million deaths. To put that into perspective, thats 10x the amount of jews hitler killed and 12x the population of Wisconsin. He made everyone do what he wanted, and treat him like he was god. He wiped out the population of Ukraine by starving, and had his "Great Purge", where he killed anyone he could.

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Stalin's rise to power started when Lenin was the Tzar of Russia. Lenin was exiled to Switzerland and then Stalin got appointed leader of Russia because of the hope that he gave Russia because of his 5 year plan to industrialize Russia. During Lenin's reign Stalin was in the group called Central Committee of the Communist party.

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What did Stalin do to establish/keep his power

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What did Stalin do to establish/keep his power

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Stalin first order of business while the dictator of Russia was his 5 year plan to turn Russia from a peasant to society to a fully industrialized country because he thought that Russia was at least 50 years behind every country in Industrialization. Stalin ruled with the fear factor because if someone broke lawas they were sent to jail and if they were repeat offenders or if they did something like murder they were sent to gulags which you basically went to work to death. Stalin started the Great purge to get rid of the Communist party because they were starting threaten his position as a leader in the USSR.

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Gulags were forced labor camps almost comparable of Concentration camps that Hitler performed in the holocaust, Stalin put the effects of the Gulags in before Hitler though and he forced people to work to industrialize the nation more during his 5 year plan and if they didnt they were worked to death. Gulads help from 2,000 to 10,000 people at a time and people were expected to work 14 hour days at a minimum no matter what there conditions were and they didn't care if you died. Stalin would even send political competition to Gulags to take them away from competing with him.

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Doing this project made me realize that Stalin did plenty of bad things and doesn't get as much recognition that he should because this should be common knowledge of what he did and why he did it because we should know what to do if someone like him comes back into power and how to defend against it.

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I think that it is a very interesting topic and that Stalin is a very interesting man. Stalin was a monster, and it is hard to comprehend his ideals and that he just did not care about human lives, even those of his country. It is also interesting to look at all of his achievements and everything he did good, and how he impacted what Russia looks like today.

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“Joseph Stalin.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin.

“Joseph Stalin: National Hero or Cold-Blooded Murderer?” BBC Teach, BBC, 12 Nov. 2019, www.bbc.co.uk/teach/joseph-stalin-national-hero-or-cold-blooded-murderer/zhv747h.