What was Joseph Stalin's legacy?
Whilst it is not easy to find many good things to say about Stalin - deaths of millions, having his close comrades arrested & shot, abandoning one wife and so humiliating his second wife that she commits suicide and his reaction to his son's capture by the Nazis - he did one thing that everyone in the World should be grateful for; he defeated the Nazis. True many other countries were involved, but the Soviets absorbed the greatest blow, and, largely through her own efforts, kicked them all the way back to Berlin. Had Stalin's Five Year Plans not involved the mobilisation of the entire country, and had he been too moralistic to use prisoners (effectively slaves) to build the new factories, then WWII would have ended very differently. One other good thing that came out of Stalin's rule was the total discrediting of Stalinism as a political system. After Khrushchev's 1956 Secret Speech was published around the World, support for Communist ideas fell away sharply, never to fully recover.
Who was Stalin and what did he do?
Stalin a native of the country of Georgia, He became the Dictator in charge of the Soviet Union that consisted of 15 countries, including Russia and Georgia. He called himself General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, but in reality he was nothing more than a Brutal Dictator. 1. He killed anyone he thought might oppose his being dictator. That included entire cities and towns, and sometimes entire groups of people of certain religions or races. It was not necessary that someone actually do something to oppose Stalin, only for Stalin to "think they might" oppose him. He even killed all of the officers in his Army because he became paranoid of them. 2. He certainly killed as many people as Hitler. For being Evil I would put them both as equal. 3. That depends upon whether you were in one of groups of people being murdered or in one of the groups of people not suspected of opposing Stalin. I have met with and spoke with many people who lived under Stalin's rule. Most of them think stalin is a hero and took good care of them. 4. He had two ways of killing people. One was execution by the military and secret police. Thousands were simply lined up and shot, but the majority were sent to Labor Camps where they were slaves that built factories and cities in Siberia where Stalin thought the factories and cities would be safe from Invasion by enemies of Russia. In the Siberian Labor Camps called Gulags, millions of workers died of malnutrition and disease. 5. Stalin did the things that he did to protect himself from his own people and from other countries that opposed his economic philosophy. 6. His crimes were know to the world at the time they occurred. No one anywhere can kill millions of people and expect it not to be noticed. When the population of entire cities vanish, someone takes notice. In addition, there were many escaped refugees who talked about the mass murder occurring in the Soviet Union. After the fall of the Soviet Union, much has been written about the Stalin "Purges", but they were well known at the time they occurred. Back then, the International Political Policy was "What you do inside your own country is an Internal Affair" and no other country would do anything unless it affects them directly. Today, political policies have changed and countries intervene in other countries "Internal Affairs" all the time.
Who was more evil, Hitler or Stalin?
We are going into an in-depth study of World War 2 in our History class. We are currently talking about the tactics of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. I know Russia fought with the Allies, while Hitler, along with Germany, fought on the Axis of Evil. But Stalin also murdered many of his people. Maybe even more Jews than Hitler killed, but I don't know that for a fact. Anyway, my question: Please tell me who you think is the more evil person of the two. And please leave a little note why. Just wondering, and please no pointless or racist comments. I really am interested to hear what you say!
Need Sensory Figures on Joseph Stalin?
I need to create a sensory figure for Joseph Stalin it needs to include Original visual depiction of the him. And have at least five descriptions on the visual, for example: what has the he seen? Heard? Said? Thought? Actions taken? Events he has participated in? Experienced? ANY WEBSITES I SHOULD GO TO. TO FIND THIS INFORMATION?
What do Russians think of Stalin today?
No clear answer because not everyone thinks alike.
What do Poles think of Stalin?
They are not the biggest fans.They remember him how he invaded Poland in 1939, together with Hitler.They remember him the genocide of Polish officers and intelligentsia.They remember him overtaking Poland in 1945 and the Yalta conference is seen as a great treason of allies towards Poland.They remember how many WW II freedom fighters were chased down and executed, how many of them were falsely promised freedom just to be caught later. Note: they didn’t fight against Russia, they fought against Hitler. Still, USSR wanted them down. Including Pilecki - the very man who volunteered to go to Auschwitz.To understand Polish people’s emotions towards Stalin you need one more fact: there is no political party in Poland which would defend the communism era and still hope to be elected.In 1953, when Stalin died, some notable Polish poets (including later noble prize laureate, Wisława Szymborska) wrote poems in his honor. All of them tried to forget about them later.Communism is seen in Poland as the age of darkness and Stalin is seen as its worst representative. Not without reason, to be honest.Poles still remember their grand- and grand-grandfathers telling stories about Russian soldiers on Polish soil, about being sent to Siberia. There’s plenty of literature on how this terrible system imposed itself on Polish people.And the worst terror was imposed during the Stalinist time. Some publications estimate Polish victims of Stalin as 1,8 million people.Unlike Georgians, Poles don’t have interest in defending their blood in Stalin’s veins and unlike Russian they don’t tend to lean towards sentiment of “former glory” during that time, as there is no glory in our soldiers helping to suppress anti-communist protests in Czechoslovakia.The perception of Stalin is as the one being responsible for genocide, falsifying elections, hunting down freedom fighters etc., etc.So, no love here.
What do Russians think about Stalin?
During the Soviet Union after Khrushchev took power and made up a bunch of lies against the former Vozhd, Stalin mostly became a taboo topic. Future leaders chose to ignore him. He was like the Bolshevik Voldemort.Now it’s mostly neutral. Among those who aren’t neutral, there’s more who have positive views than negative ones. And he has been slowly reappearing in Russia. For instance the memorial plaque in the Kremlin used to say “Volgograd” (the new name for Stalingrad- a city that didn’t even exist during the event it represents) but now it has been changed to Stalingrad.Volgograd also voted to change the city’s name to “Stalingrad” for 6 relevant days. One of them being Victory day.And in the Moscow metro, an inscription that was covered up after his death has been restored.“We were raised by Stalin; he inspired our faith in people, our labor and deeds.”Billboard by the KPRF (communist party in Russia) for his 135th birthday. Praising Stalin for picking up Russia as a peasant nation and leaving it as a country with atomic bombs.2008 Name of Russia results. Top is internet votes only.Putin is closing in on Stalin as the greatest person in history according to RussiansYours faithfully = with respect. Google translate is weak.Stalin monument built in 2016 in Surgut. As you can see, not everyone was happy about it. —- The red paint (hopefully, paint) was not part of the original monument.Lipetsk built in 2015Yalta built in 2015
Jospeh stalin long term effects?
Stalin’s historical legacy is overwhelmingly negative. Although his policies transformed the USSR from an agrarian-based society into an industrialized nation with a powerful military arsenal, the transformation was accomplished at the cost of millions of lives. Stalin’s militant distrust of the West and his assertion of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe gave rise to the Cold War. His purges of society through violent police terror left a permanent scar on the collective memory of the people under his rule. Although admired by some Russians, most would agree with the assessment in the West that Stalin was one of the cruelest dictators in history.
What did Stalin do to improve the economy of the USSR?
Stalin’s main economic legacy was building from scratch a world-class military-industrial complex.Starting from 1928 (the end of NEP), within a decade, the USSR acquired a modern heavy industry, and with it the biggest and best equipped army the world has seen. Also, Stalin reorganized the economy in such a way that it could support this unprecedented militarization with the infrastructure and food production able to sustain to a protracted war effort.Thanks to that, the USSR was able to regroup in a very short time after the first catastrophic months of the German attack in 1941. Even with the entire Red Army lost, Stalin managed to set afoot a new one, arm it, and drive the aggressors back.Stalin achieved this through a massive exploitation of Soviet people, collectivization of private peasants, and considerable deterioration of living standards. This was exacerbated by WWII. The living standards from the era of NEP were recovered first in the 1960s. The overall food situation did not fundamentally improve until the collapse of Communism in 1991.Most of the statistics that showed the real economic situation of common people became classified, starting from the end of 1920s. Yet, even the heavily doctored Soviet data often showed the worsening of living conditions. As for example this stat sample for meat production in the country. This was the price the nation had to pay for the economic miracle of Stalin’s rule.Picture: Production of meat in slaughter weight, million metric ton