Joseph Stalin- First to suffer or self-inflict 20 million deaths in his own country and get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice by Brandon Ximenez https://padlet.com/99712718/2xfnnt9u39vj Unit 3 GRASPS Assessment en-us 2018-05-02 20:47:58 UTC 2018-05-04 21:43:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Joseph Stalin led the USSR (Russia) from 1929 to 1953. He is and was seen as many by a vicious blood-thirsting dictator. This is primarily due to his immense efforts to ensure he held authority over Russia. He sacrificed and expended many of his people and resources to stay in power. 99712718 https://padlet.com/99712718/2xfnnt9u39vj/wish/257912336 2018-05-04 04:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/99712718/2xfnnt9u39vj/wish/257912336 Stalin became progressively possessive and paranoid, especially as his health deteriorated. As a result, he killed more than 20,000 people in power such as military-related positions and politicians. Keep in mind he executed his own officials to make sure he would lead Russia by his own hand for as long as possible. 99712718 https://padlet.com/99712718/2xfnnt9u39vj/wish/257914387 2018-05-04 05:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/99712718/2xfnnt9u39vj/wish/257914387 Along with plenty of his own officials, he was also deemed responsible for the deaths of millions due to a famine in 1931-1933, which affected primarily Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and even his own people that was concluded to be caused by his collectivization program. This program took all land and resources owned by peasants and those who were poor which caused millions to die of starvation including his own people 99712718 https://padlet.com/99712718/2xfnnt9u39vj/wish/257915466 2018-05-04 05:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/99712718/2xfnnt9u39vj/wish/257915466 Under Stalin's rule, many of his own citizens and official positions were sentenced to death or sent to labor/ concentration camps if they did or Stalin thought or feared they would not obey and adopt his ideologies, laws, values, etc. He essentially eliminated anyone within his own party/ country who did not agree or posed a possible threat to him. He did everything he possibly could to stay in power. 99712718 https://padlet.com/99712718/2xfnnt9u39vj/wish/257916814  

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