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 Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin he was associated with the Russians, he was a native. Born in Gori, Georgia. He rose to power because he was the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union. His involvement with the socialist movement began at seminary school, where he was expelled in 1899. He soon followed Vladimir Lenin's ideology about centralism and a strong party of "professional revolutionaries". Stalin spent his first years after the revolution building his post as general secretary ; into one of the most powerful communist parties. When he entered the Soviet Union, his plan was to make the Soviet Union an industrial state. So, in 1928, he launched his idea of his Five- Year Plan. The plan included two goals: fast growth of heavy industries and increased farm production through agriculture. It was in a series of five-year plans, the nation's resources was poured into building steel mills, electric power stations, and other industries needed in for an industrial state. He believed in the ideology or centralism and a strong party of "professional revolutionaries". His practical experience made him useful in Lenin's Bolshevik party leading up to the 1917 October Revolution. Most of Stalin's aggressive actions during the 1920-1930's was that he would kill innocent people at the time. He killed many; Under the pretext of constructing `socialism in one country', Stalin terrorized large segments of the Soviet population, also organized a huge famine in Ukraine where an estimated 5 million people died. Its said that with the purges, forced famines, state terrorism, labor camps, and forced migrations, Stalin was responsible for the death of as many as 40 million people within the borders of the Soviet Union. Stalin murdered an estimated 20 million people.

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