Compare And Contrast Lenin And Stalin

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At school the children were only taught about what the government wanted them to learn. Stalin had the kids tell the ss if there mom and and of even teacher were not following his rules.Outside of school, children were expected to join youth organisations.Women had less freedom with Stalin then with Lenin. Stalin put emphasis on family make any child born out of marriage homeless.The state paid families a child allowance if their were a married couple. It became a lot harder to get a divorce and restrictions were placed on abortions.Living standards went up even when they were having a food problem.Even though russian people had health care many of the time the doctors had to do un need operations. To keep everyone “equally” Stalin had

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