was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953. He was born December 18‚ 1878 and he died in 1953. He was born in Georgia. He was the leader of the Soviet Union‚ he ordered every citizen to the Soviet Union to not surrender and to use a single drop of blood. By saying this he is ordering a massacre killing 27 million soviets in WW2. He killed dissidents‚ sent millions of untrained Russians into the war and industrialized the Soviet Union‚ which required more killing
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Account for the “failure of democracy” in Eastern Europe (excluding the USSR) in the period 1918-1939. According to Robert A. Dahl‚ there are certain criteria that a government must meet for it to be called a democracy. Democracy must provide first of all‚ opportunities for effective participation‚ where all members of an association concerned with a certain policy ‘must have equal and effective opportunities for making their views known to the other members as to what the policy should be’
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finalised the plans of the Nazi party’s takeover of the state. It was through Weimar’s own demise that Hitler was able to rise from the failed Republic and take seat as the most powerful man in Germany. His following domination between 1933- 1939 as a ‘powerful dictator’ Hitler used his political plans and the appeal of the Nazi policies with the authority brought by the SS and his influential charisma and the understanding that German people did not have a relationship with the Nazi Party‚ but instead
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The Nazis were not the first people to practice anti-Semitism‚ but is true that the Nazis practiced anti-Semitism in the most violent and horrifying way. This generalisation can be easily made because most people aren’t taught about pre-Nazi anti-Semitism so they presume that it was just practiced by the Nazis. Anti-Semitism had been around for nearly 2000 years before the Nazis. It changed over time as it started off as religious bullying with only a few physical and violent attacks before becoming
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To what extent was Nazi Germany a totalitarian state Germany was a totalitarian state‚ however‚ only to an extent due to differing perspectives Nazi Germany did not fit the universal criteria of what constitutes totalitarianism. It is unarguably necessary that Germany was ran by a single party‚ had absolute control over mass communication & media‚ had a systematic terror & police control as well as total control over the army. However‚ many have argued that Nazi Germany was not totalitarian as it
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1970’s it seemed that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union had finally begun to thaw. President Nixon and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev had agreed to SALT I or the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; an agreement to limit the number of nuclear weapons that each nation kept in their arsenal. Along with the SALT I agreement came “the adoption of a new policy method‚ détente‚ which would dominate U.S. and Soviet policy for the next decade” [1] an agreement formed due in fact to the
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was how the Soviets interfered in the city government. Firstly‚ the Soviet Union used intimidation to control the Berlin police. The police were used to terrorize Berliners in all sections of the city. Knight time kidnapping and mysterious disappearance became normal (but they were always protested by the western powers).8 Even Americans were not safe from these acts of terror. On multiple occasions American military men or journalist would disappear from all zones of the city. The Soviets would deny
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World War 2 (WW2) destroyed the Soviet Union. Apart from the loss of 25 million Russians‚ whole cities had been reduced to rubble‚ villages obliterated‚ and machinery and livestock destroyed (Aldred and Waller). Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin‚ the Soviet Union came out of WW2 with the goals of safeguarding and rebuilding the nation‚ expanding the communist sphere of influence and thereby‚ creating an indestructible Soviet Empire. In the twentieth century‚ Russia suffered three attacks from
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Nazi Organization As the onset of World War II approached‚ Adolf Hitler’s secret police began to systematically arrest enemies of the regime. As the regime evolved‚ so did its desire to control incarcerated political enemies. The concentration camps meticulously kept records of its prisoners: Ethnicity‚ who they were‚ why they were imprisoned‚ and other facts and figures. As the regime turned towards mass killings as its solution to the “Jewish Question”‚ Nazi’s began the systematic killing of
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The Soviet Union strategic decision was to expand communism not only on the European continent but as well as across the international system. This was apparent following the West intervention in the Russian Civil War that the Soviet Union would support communist revolutionary groups advocated for an overthrow of Western liberal capitalist regimes and established a communist state. In phase I (1917-1941) and phase III (1945-1985)‚ the Soviet Union would attempt to undermine Western regimes‚ through
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