FREE ESSAY ON STALIN

STALIN

STALIN
Stalin Essay Much like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin was one of the most ruthless and
diabolical people in the history of the world. Hitler once said of Stalin,  He is a
beast, but he's a beast on a grand scale who must command our unconditional respect. In
his own way, he is a hell of a fellow! (Stalin Breaker of Nations, p.xvi) What Hitler
said of Stalin is only his opinion, and it is not a valid one at that. For you must
consider the source, it takes a beast like Adolf Hitler to know a beast and Stalin was a
horrible beast. He was also a murderer. Stalin abused his people when he starved them to
death, and systematically murdered them. Stalin also abused his country by halting
Russia's progress and economic growth. Stalin was a breaker of nations. Stalin first
enter the Russian political system in the early nineteen teens. With the help form Lenin,
Stalin proposed an answer to the National Question, which was self determination.
Stalin's ruthlessness is first discovered by Lenin, when Stalin is sent to Georgia to
convince the Georgia leader not to practice self determination. When the leader does not
agree with what Stalin has to say, Stalin punches the man out and threaten to kill them
all. Years after that incident Lenin end up dying and Stalin takes over as the leader of
Russia. Because Trotsky was hated by many of the influential political figures in Russia,
Stalin becomes the leader of Russia even after Lenin's dying last wishes. 1929 was the
first of many years in which Stalin stunted Russia's growth. In that year the Engineer
Trials were held. During these trials the Russian elite was brought forth by Stalin on
the account of treason. Confessions by the elite which consisted of engineers, doctors,
lawyers, teachers and clergy were extracted by many means including torture. After these
trials were through thousands of the Russian elite were murdered, with their blood on
Stalin's hands. These trails had a horrific effect on the progress of Russia, there was
now nobody left to lead Russian into the future, and the few elite's that still remained
in Russia lived in constant fear of their lives. Around 1932, Stalin had put his plan
into action that was later called the Terror Famine. In the Terror Famine, Stalin started
to order grain requisitions from the lower class in the Ukraine. Stalin used his army to
retrieve the grain from the people, following the orders by Stalin, the army takes too
much grain and causes a famine among the lower class. Stalin justified the taking of the
grain by saying that it was just a way for the state to regulate the price of grain. By
doing this Stalin ended up breaking the back of the Georgians and the Ukrainians.
Knowingly, Stalin eliminated millions upon millions of Russian, between 30 and 50
million, in his attempt at an absolute totalitarian rule in Russia. By killing so many of
the Russian's who were the ones which the economy was supported on, Stalin has broken the
nation of the Ukraine. From around 1936 through 1938 Stalin extracted his Great Terror.
The Great Terror consisted of many events including the Purge Trials and the Katyn
Massacre. During the purge trials, Stalin once again haltered Russian progress. The Purge
Trials eliminated many military officers and engineers. The numbers are not exact, but
between 250,000 to 500,000 Russians died because of Stalin's orders. These trials caused
mass paranoia of the elite's, afraid to make a difference, for if they did then they
would ultimately end up dead. Stalin not only haltered the growth of his own country, but
he haltered the growth of neighboring counties, on being Poland. In Poland during the
Great Terror, Stalin ordered the Katyn Massacre to occur. The top 15,000 officers in the
Polish army were rounded up and killed in the forests of Belarus. This was a deep wound,
the stunted the Polish progress, since now there were would be no more experienced
leaders in Poland's future, since Stalin killed most of their military elite. Once again
Stalin had broken another nation. During all this time, Stalin was also methodically
killing off all of his political opponents, or anyone who posed as to be the most remote
of a threat to him. Unlike what Hitler thought of Stalin, the opposite is true. Stalin
showed mercy to no one, he evil incarnate, killing innocent Russians and severely
damaging any possible of future progress for Russia. Stalin had broken the Russian
nation.