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Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union from 1922, through World War II, until 1953. He instituted Five Year Plans?, which attempted to modernize Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union. Stalin was famous for his ruthlessness. He brutalized small farmers, forcing them into large state-run collectives. He moved ethnic groups around, sometimes thousands of miles. People were sent to gulag labor camps in Siberia, where many of them died. He had a secret police, the NKVD, which assisted his reign of terror. |