Stalin's Fist Goal

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Stalin’s fist goal was to legitimize the his rule of the communist nation. His view was that he had to take care of his nation before worrying about turning other nations Communist. This is opposite of what the Bolshevik revolution depended on. They depended on workers' revolutions throughout Europe for the rise of Communism. So, Stalin set out to nationalize everything in Russia. He nationalized the industrial and agricultural structure of the Soviet Union through a series of systems called Five Year Plans.
It was in these years his true self was made known to the public. There is a story that when Stalin was a kid, he was brutal. One time, it is said that, he choked and killed a calf that was stuck in mud. Soon, resisters of his regime felt

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