Why Is Joseph Stalin Worse Than Life In The Soviet Union
The 20th century saw two of the biggest totalitarian leaders in Europe. When talking about two men who have had the biggest impact good or bad on the world then Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin come up. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He is the one to blame for World War 2, the Holocaust and the destruction of other nations. Stalin governed the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1952. He formalized Marxism and Leninism to make his own policies known as Stalinism. He started the puges in 1937 and collectivization which caused a lot of casualties among his own people. I do not agree that life in the soviet union was worse than life in Nazi Germany as life was horrible under both dictators.
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Stalin wanted a rapid economical transformation from an agricultural, peasant-based nation into a modern economical world power and therefore initiated the five year plans. The five year plans were good economically and for Stalin’s propaganda but for the normal people it was a disaster. The workers were not trained well and the machines and factories were badly made meaning it was a dangerous place to work in. They were underfed and did not have the money to buy good worker clothes. With the building of big projects such as roads and railways came big accidents such as the Belomor Canal accident. 100,000 people building the canal, sadly this was only a fraction of the people who died during these Five year plans. Other people died through famines and diseases. All in all economically these five years were a success, it brought the Soviet Union into the modern age but for the normal people it was not positive. Germany’s economy was in a big mess when Adolf HItler came to power. 6 million people were unemployed in 1933 and therefore Hitler introduced some policies to make the numbers drop. There was so much unemployment because of the wall street crash. Hitler scrapped women from the statistics jews lost their citizenship in 1935 and therefore were also not included in the statistics. Through these measures the numbers went down from 6 million in 1933 to 302,000 in 1939. Another reason for this drop is that a lot of
Stalin wanted a rapid economical transformation from an agricultural, peasant-based nation into a modern economical world power and therefore initiated the five year plans. The five year plans were good economically and for Stalin’s propaganda but for the normal people it was a disaster. The workers were not trained well and the machines and factories were badly made meaning it was a dangerous place to work in. They were underfed and did not have the money to buy good worker clothes. With the building of big projects such as roads and railways came big accidents such as the Belomor Canal accident. 100,000 people building the canal, sadly this was only a fraction of the people who died during these Five year plans. Other people died through famines and diseases. All in all economically these five years were a success, it brought the Soviet Union into the modern age but for the normal people it was not positive. Germany’s economy was in a big mess when Adolf HItler came to power. 6 million people were unemployed in 1933 and therefore Hitler introduced some policies to make the numbers drop. There was so much unemployment because of the wall street crash. Hitler scrapped women from the statistics jews lost their citizenship in 1935 and therefore were also not included in the statistics. Through these measures the numbers went down from 6 million in 1933 to 302,000 in 1939. Another reason for this drop is that a lot of