This colossal conflict played a decisive role in destroying the Nazi regime: the German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. ... However one must not emphasize the importance of weather, it was often given precedence by the Nazis as a way to downplay their own failings and the Red Army's successes, indeed Goebbels created a propaganda campaign around it. ... Allies Russia's "strange alliance" with Britain and America was pivotal in her ability to resist and overcome Nazi Germany. ... The Soviet Union benefitted from allied intelligence, after the c...

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Propaganda has been a major feature in history, as it is a vice used to inform people this propaganda and advertising stuff that people usually trust and listen to. In Animal Farm a key character that distributed propaganda to the Farm was Squealer. ... As Orwell parallels the Battle of the Windmill with the Battle of Stalingrad, readers can draw inferences about the Nazi German invasion according to what happens in the feud between the farmers and animals. ...

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But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... As Hitler rose to power in Germany, Stalin first contemplated forming a defensive alliance with Britain and France against the Nazis. But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack ...

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Forces such as the Second World War, Nazi relations and social and political ramifications can be seen to play a key role in influencing cohesion and division within Soviet society. ... A huge propaganda machine pushed the cult of Stalin into every corner of society. ... Alongside this, Hitler and Nazi Germany were important elements of change and fear in Soviet society ultimately leading to division. ... For example the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. ... The Nazi Germany attack on the USSR provided an enormous test for the Soviet Union. ...

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With complete disgust for the Nazi movement Western influence now fell under suspect for Stalin Still began to remove any forms of opposition Stalin would not sign the Geneva convention so 1 out of 5 prisoners were returned People could be arrested even for the smallest of offences. ... Most of them were sent to the camps Stalin himself began to believe his own propaganda "Glory to the Great Stalin- (Stalin cult) Society honestly believed that everything Stalin did was in the best interests of the Society Science was prohibited by Stalin. Seen as a threat Prisoners of the gu...

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For almost 50 years the world thought that the Nazis had done the killing in Russia, when in fact it was Stalin. ... Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. ... Squealer brainwashed (a form of propaganda) the barnyard animals into believing that they did not like apples and milk, while he and Napoleon were stealing the food for themselves. In Russia, the Bolsheviks carried out propaganda on the people by passing out leaflets and putting stories in the newspapers that were not true. ...

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For almost 50 years the world thought that the Nazis had done the killing in Russia, when in fact it was Stalin. ... Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. ... Squealer brainwashed (a form of propaganda) the barnyard animals into believing that they did not like apples and milk, while he and Napoleon were stealing the food for themselves. In Russia, the Bolsheviks carried out propaganda on the people by passing out leaflets and putting stories in the newspapers that were not true. ...

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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. While both men are notoriously known as two of the most evil men in history, it is obvious that they accomplished great things for their countries. Following Lenin and Trotsky's revolution and reign in Russia, Stalin began his massive political, social, and economic changes in 1928 with the First Five Year Plan, which was designed to cause rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. After the Bolsheviks or p...

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Stalin used propaganda and persuaded the people to believe in him. ... He is a person for others, has good public speaking skills, (he did after all organize and address the Red Army completely by himself) was an intellectual and very open to growth, he had nice manners and was welcoming and loving to everyone he liked, he was for a just society and was against any Nazi or fascism beliefs, and of course was a great leader with strong work ethics, and the ability to speak strongly and persuasively. ...

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Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ... Many thousands of people succumbed to the image that Stalin's regime produced in huge quantities, blurring the line between reality and propaganda. ...

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The wide and varied methods of control employed by Stalin included terror, censorship, propaganda and centralised control. ... Stalin was credited by the Russian people with the victory over the Nazi regime, this only helped to strengthen the 'Cult of personality' created by Stalin as yet another means of control. ...

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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. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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Henry Kissinger's quote, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" has been depicted throughout history. For many centuries, one communal goal found amongst disparate individuals, colonies, and nations was the desire to obtain the greatest magnitude of power. The collective mindset found concerning domina...

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