Joseph Stalin held absolute authority in the Soviet Union for twenty nine years. During his time as dictator he moved the Soviet Union to a world power, while starving and arresting his own people. His brutal dictatorship was one of the bloodiest in history. He can be compared to such leaders like A...

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In 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a non-aggression pact, which secretly promised Russia half of Poland, Bessarabia and the Baltic States. Germany had promised this because they were afraid of an alliance between Britain, France and the USSR. During 1940 the Soviets invaded the Baltic S...

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On 26 September 1939, twenty five days after the Germans invaded the Polish border, a Romanian plane hijacked by Polish forces landed near Warsaw carrying  an emissary of the Polish commander-in-chief. ...

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