Prior to World War II, both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler rose to power in their respective countries and brought about great change during their ensuing reigns. ... First, in Stalin's Russia, his Five Year Plans controlled the national economy. ... Second, the political actions of Stalin and Hitler both drastically changed and revolutionized their countries, but Hitler's work proved to be better for his country than Stalin's work. ... Lastly, both Hitler and Stalin created their ideal societies in their respective countries. In Russia, Stalin's Five Year Plans created tem...

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In the history of mankind there are countless men whose names have been synonymous with power, greed and above all, evil Joseph Stalin or Iosef Vissanionvich Dzhugaskvilli would become one of these men. Joseph was born December 21 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russia. ... His mother who was very religious sent Joseph to a church school. ... Joseph finally got the chance to meet Lenin in 1905 at a conference in Finland Lenin noticed that Stalin was very dedicated and loyal to Lenin's cause so Lenin appointed Joseph to work for his cause by raising money for the Bolsheviks by any means neces...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. ... Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. ... Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... It was at this time that he adopted the name "Stalin," meaning "steel one." ... Even in his final years, Stalin remained dangero...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. ... Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . ... Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. ... In May, Stalin was sent to Petrograd (St. ... She was seventeen when they married, and Stalin was 39. ...

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Churchill, attended several crucial summits, and in October 1944, he visited Moscow for having talks with the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin. ... Stalin scrawled a big mark on the document with his customary blue pencil. Churchill was impressed, thinking that was a successful conference where Stalin could be relied upon. ... This might explain why Churchill hoped that a special agreement with Stalin could constrain the actions of Stalin. ... Therefore, Stalin's motivation was more conventional, believing that whatever Soviet Union gets should be determined by the extent of losses it ha...

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Many historians strongly believe that the reason for Germanys attack on Stalingrad was because of its name, Hitler hated Joseph Stalin who was Russia's current leader. ... Stalin was enraged by Hitlers act and knew that Russia would stop at nothing to protect its city and citizens. ... During this event the soviet union was under the reign of Joseph Stalin, The German army wasn't gonna be spared any mercy (Stalin wasn't known as to look after his own people and now war prisoners under Stalins care). ... It was a bloody battle of the Axis vs the Allies, The Battle of Stalingrad r...

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The USSR's leader, Joseph Stalin, was not fond of this idea and wanted to push the Western allies away so that he would be able to take full control over the city of Berlin and consequently the rest of Germany. ... Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany" This would give the USSR edge over the Western allies in the fight for control over Berlin and consequent...

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A major factor was the Stalin's foreign policy. ... Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary....One can ask, therefore, what can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security for the future, tries to achieve that these countries should have governments whose relations to the Soviet Union are loyal?". ... On July 25, 1945, two month after Germany has surrendered, the Big Three - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry...

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On July 18, 1941, Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin requested that the allies create a second front by invading German-occupied France. ... This operation would also help to reduce Stalins suspiciousness of the West by showing that they were not content to leave the actual fighting to the Soviets. ... This infuriated Stalin. ... It was Stalins belief that a united Slavic people would prevent such an event from ever recurring.9 Though American-Soviet relationships seemed to be on a downturn for the worst following Stalins unilateral recognition of the Lublin Committee, the Yalta conference...

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What manifested was an unprecedented conflict of ideological misunderstandings, broken promises, suspicions, and changing players (i.e. deaths of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin). ... They ascribe blame to both the US and Soviets for being responsible, it does put more blame on the Stalin for perpetuating the conflict. ...

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On June 25 1950 North Korea crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, officially invading South Korea, and marking what has been recorded historically as the beginning of the Korean War. Traditionally, many have viewed this war as democracy versus communism, the United States against Russia, and as the f...

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At first each country wanted a to have their own different way of punishing Nazi Germany after the war, for example the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin wanted to have an execution of more than 500,000 Nazi officials and those that had helped the Nazi in such inhumane acts, while Winston Churchill, the Great Britain Prime Minister only wanted the execution of the high ranking Nazi officials without any possibility of a trial whatsoever. ...

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August sixth, 1945 a devastating day for some and a victorious day for others. August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. The United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms...

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With the announcement from the Soviet Union lead by Joseph Stalin in 1949 they too had the nuclear capability to launch a weapon with the same devastating power. ... Once Stalin died, Nikita Khrushchev took over the Soviet Union. ...

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Joseph de Maistre despised the Enlightenment for taking power away from religion and traditional elites, just as Hippolyte Taine condemned the rise to power of the masses, whom he suggested were biologically inferior to aristocrats (RoSo, 2002). ... Both Hitler and Stalin engaged in the Holocaust and mass-murder "purges" respectively, and both had ambitions for total control over their own citizens: privacy was a crime against the state (Segre, 2002). ...

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When this pact was put into action right away something was going to go wrong such as Adolph Hitler gains power in 1933, Joseph Stalin begins his Reign, and Mussolini rises from the ashes of Italy's economic depression. ...

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Genocide Bahutu The historical background to the Bahutu people (also known as Hutu) is important. Burundi achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. It had a population estimated at about 3.5 million in the 1970's and a land area of slightly more than ten thousand square miles. The original inhabitants of the area of modern-day Burundi were probably the Batwa (Twa), a subgroup of the Twide pygmies. The Bahutus compose nearly 85 percent of the population in Burundi. ...

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"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world." This is a direct quote from the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which was formulated to ...

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During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman barely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 194...

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Just before the invasion of Poland Hitler secretly met with Joseph Stalin to secure what is now known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact. "Signed 23 August 1939, Hitler and Stalin agreed to Poland's partition and dissolution....

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