The Life of Josef Stalin It is the middle of the 1910’s and World War One is ravaging Europe. Germany is on the brink, and they need a way to take Russia out of the war. They load a weapon on a train that’s headed to Moscow. His name is Josef Stalin. Josef Stalin, one of the best dictators of all time; and it all started December, 1878. Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 18, 1878 in the small village of Gori, Georgia. At the age of seven Josef contracted the smallpox disease, leaving his face scarred for life. With this scar on his face the other children in the village started treating him cruelly and instilling in him a sense of inferiority. Because of this feeling Stalin went on a great conquest for greatness and respect.
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It was too good to be true. As Stalin was so trusting of Hitler’s word he ignored the countless warnings from his generals stating that the Nazis were mobilizing an army on the Eastern Front. When the Nazi blitzkrieg started in 1941, Russia was not prepared for it at all and immediately suffered heavy losses. Stalin was so distraught at Hitler’s actions that he hid in his office for several days. By the time that Stalin came out of his office, Germany had already seized Ukraine and had its artillery aimed at Leningrad. But that all changed when Hitler got too cocky and tried to capture Stalingrad instead of Moscow. Stalin’s forces held the ground in the bloodiest battle in the history of the world; overall it had more than 2 million casualties. After the victory at Stalingrad, Russia’s forces were liberating country after country before the other allies even started a western front at D-Day. The slow start of the creation of the Western Front deepened Stalin’s suspicion of the other allies. After the war believing the allies were going to invade Russia, Stalin created a buffer zone of Communist countries in the west. This is when Russia and the other United Nations had a falling out and was on the brink of the Cold War. After uncovering an assassination plot, Stalin designed another Communist Purge that would turn out to be worse than the first. …show more content…
To achieve what Stalin did, he had to use many lives. Yes, he did kill an abundance of people trying to reach his goal, but when he did reach his goal it brought the whole economy of Russia to an all time high. Also they don’t agree with Stalin’s love for the military. They think that his love for the military overshadowed how he should have handled the homeland. But Stalin’s military is the same one that liberated all of Eastern Europe from Nazi rule. All in all Stalin was liked and disliked in many fashions. But, with his achievements Stalin became one of the best leaders in the modern
It was too good to be true. As Stalin was so trusting of Hitler’s word he ignored the countless warnings from his generals stating that the Nazis were mobilizing an army on the Eastern Front. When the Nazi blitzkrieg started in 1941, Russia was not prepared for it at all and immediately suffered heavy losses. Stalin was so distraught at Hitler’s actions that he hid in his office for several days. By the time that Stalin came out of his office, Germany had already seized Ukraine and had its artillery aimed at Leningrad. But that all changed when Hitler got too cocky and tried to capture Stalingrad instead of Moscow. Stalin’s forces held the ground in the bloodiest battle in the history of the world; overall it had more than 2 million casualties. After the victory at Stalingrad, Russia’s forces were liberating country after country before the other allies even started a western front at D-Day. The slow start of the creation of the Western Front deepened Stalin’s suspicion of the other allies. After the war believing the allies were going to invade Russia, Stalin created a buffer zone of Communist countries in the west. This is when Russia and the other United Nations had a falling out and was on the brink of the Cold War. After uncovering an assassination plot, Stalin designed another Communist Purge that would turn out to be worse than the first. …show more content…
To achieve what Stalin did, he had to use many lives. Yes, he did kill an abundance of people trying to reach his goal, but when he did reach his goal it brought the whole economy of Russia to an all time high. Also they don’t agree with Stalin’s love for the military. They think that his love for the military overshadowed how he should have handled the homeland. But Stalin’s military is the same one that liberated all of Eastern Europe from Nazi rule. All in all Stalin was liked and disliked in many fashions. But, with his achievements Stalin became one of the best leaders in the modern