eliminate individuals who opposed his rule.
Under the iron rule of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet people had to deal with the cruel dictatorship that Stalin imposed on the USSR. His stated goals were to make the USSR a powerful and better nation for all. However, power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. Stalin executed many people that he believed were not loyal communists. His collective production plans directed by government officials who had to toe the communist line, caused many economic problems in the USSR. The Siberian labor camps were filled with "enemies" of the people, so Stalin said. Many were against the lack of any sort of democracy. In the 20th century the two European dictators, Hitler and Stalin would vie for the title of worst & cruel men to ever lead a nation.
Stalin did not have authority to order Churchill to do anything.In late 1944, German forces were weakening. Churchill and his military intelligence advisers predicted that assistance given to Soviet ground forces approaching from the East would hasten the collapse of Germany.British and American bombers carried out four bombing raids in February 1945 in which fifteen square miles of Dresden were destroyed.
In 1948 and 1949, Stalin decided to impose a blockade on West Berlin as part of an overall plan to bring West Berlin, then the whole of the western portion of Germany (still occupied by French, British, and American forces), into union with Soviet-controlled East Germany. By closing land-access to West Berlin, Stalin considered that the city would soon require Soviet assistance and thereby come under Soviet control.
Stalinism, which is a totalitarian form of state capitalism, relying on a police state and surveillance of citizens to maintain order. Also involved assassination of all his former Bolshevik revolutionary comrades, who opposed him because he had betrayed the revolution. Stalinism is everything Socialism/Communism is not. More information here: http://www.marxists.org/
Joseph Stalin
Joseph stalin
remove German pressure in russia
eliminate individuals who opposed his rule.
It was called the Big Purge. Stalin's reign of terror is referred to as the Great Terror or the Great Purge.
eliminate individuals who opposed his rule.
Joseph Stalin or birth name (Joseph Vissarionovich Jugashvili ), it was his motto for rebuilding the communist country. Crashing buildings to build ones. We must destroy in order to create.
Joseph Stalin confiscated grain in order to export as much grain as possible to get as much international trade credit as he possibly could. This income would then fuel his plan to industrialize Russia under his Five Year Plans. Grain was also confiscated grain from the peasants to feed his factory workers. In other cases grain was taken from the peasants in order to starve them into complying with his collective farmland system. He met no resistance in that other communists were to fearful of opposing Stalin. His control of the military prevented any generals from helping peasants as well.
The Cathedral of the Annunciation at the Kremlin and the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat. One of the great cathedrals of Moscow was blown up on the order of Joseph Stalin on 5 December 1931.
With an iron fist. Stalin was responsible for millions of murders of his fellow countrymen.
As far as Joseph Stalin was concerned, England, France and the United States had been plotting an imperialist war with Germany in the 1930's. Allied attempts in that period of time to make an alliance with the USSR were ruses. In order to protect the Soviet Union, Stalin signed the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939.
His critics were often killed or tortured during his reign in order to ensure his power. Critics are seen as harmful to his control, as they could influence people about him negatively. Therefore, when someone spoke out against him, he hade them "handled". This way people didn't hear negative criticism of Stalin.