Rarely do we contemplate how lucky we are to live in a world with health care, technology, automobiles, and other conveniences that are mostly contemporary devices today. ... They had been stripped down to a barbaric lifestyle, where shoes were more important than any rug or lamp could be. ... Sturdy shoes, food, clothing, blankets, and safety were now the most essential components of life for the Jews. ... What once could have been worth a few hundred dollars was now exchangeable for a second helping of soup, or a sturdier pair of shoes. ...

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For the rest of Stalin's childhood, Joseph and Yekaterina lived in the home of a priest named Father Charkviani where the hard-working woman attempted to make sure that her only son would be educated enough to escape the drudgery of a lower class life. ... The Church played a strong role in his early life: he lived with a priest and his schooling was religious. His mother enrolled him in the Gori Church School in September 1888 when her son was nine and he graduated six years later, despite various interruptions as when Stalin's father took the young boy to Tiflis to work alongs ...

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The Nazi forces the people who lived in the area to moved and took their land to make room for camp's settle. ... In the warehouse, the Soviet found 350,000 men's suits, 837,000 outfits for women, and large amount of kids clothing, they also found ten of thousands pair of shoes and 7.7 tons of human hair in paper bags, pack for shipping. ...

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Most of them lived in poverty/poor farmers that could not even provide food for their families. ... Ammunition supplies had run out, many soldiers lacked shoes and sufficient clothing; adequate food supplies had cease reaching the front, but to the soldiers it seemed that the leaders callously ignored the losses of lives. ...

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Clothing and shoes though were even harder to come by. ... The Kirkus Review said, "One of the most comprehensive accounts of what it meant to live in Stalin's Russia" (Thebookservice.com). ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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• Grade Level: High School