Joseph Stalin's Failures

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The most powerful communist country in history, the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, also known as the Soviet Union. Although being the biggest country the world has come to know, the country’s domestic struggles led to its downfall. Others suggest the Union’s desperation to outperform the United States of America in military and space flight led to excessive spending and in the end, stagnation. Moreover after decades of repressive communist rule, domestic attitudes towards the governments went to their all-time lows and led to the population’s unrest. Economic and political issues failed to get prioritized and continued to get ignored. Mikhal Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR, introduced his plans, attempting to change the flaws of their government while keeping the same fundamentals of Communism. In the end, his plans backfired and the population used its new found freedom of speech, given to them by Gorbachev, against the communist government. Collapse of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin was the primary reason the union turned into a dictatorship and wielded absolute power over the people of the nation. Stalin ruled over with fear and murdered millions until his death in office in 1952. The Sino-Soviet split followed and was the friction between the Soviets and Chinese. Tension between the two was caused by one country claiming it had a better communist system than the other. The leader of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong, emulated Stalin’s style of dictatorship and was what led to Chinese communism. Nikita Khrushchev, the new leader of the Soviet Union, would attempt to undo all that Stalin had implemented calling it de-Stalinization. Relations between the two deteriorated as Mao and his country became isolated as Khrushchev’s new policies with the west

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