Soviet Union During The 1930s Essay

During the 1930’s the Soviet Union was going through economical and military changes. Civilians were living through some hardships both physically, emotionally and mentally. Many of this could be looked at by how the leadership was dealing with the economy. World War I started before the murder of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 but this is what perpetuated it to start. How did the poor leadership from the government officials weaken the country econom-ically and militarily? The Soviet Union suffered drastically during the Great Depression because of poor lead-ership. It started with Hitler who took over office after German chancellor Paul van Hindenberg. Hitler had a troubled life and suffered physically and mentally which are some of the reasons why he was the leader he was. It stated when he was a child he lost his parents and lived off the inheritance and orphan pension ran out he became homeless. He painted post cards and sold them that is how he was able to eat and then he slept on park benches at night and sometimes he was forced to live in homeless shelters. Hitler was attracted to pornography, read a magazine name Ostra which contained anti-Semitic overtones, Wild West books name Old Shatterheand by a German writer Karl May, music by Richard Wagner who also had …show more content…
Buildings had been demolished because of the war, transpiration was a problem because the roads were destroyed and trade was slowed down massively from other countries because the bridges and ports were useless. By the end of the war all side had suffered death, but not like the Europeans who out of their population lost over 40 million people crippled psychologically, the mass killings of the Jews or physically from the