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The atrocities of the WWII era were caused by Joseph Stalin using police and military terror in the USSR to get rid of anyone he considered his enemy by locking them away in the Gulags, he used control of individuals by forcing farmers to combine their farms into mega farms, and Adolf Hitler used ideology to “purify” Germany of lesser races. In the USSR Joseph Stalin used police and military terror to confine peasants in concentration camps known as Gulags where millions died of starvation and…

A key ingredient in every American household, fragile eggs do not belong in the brutal and cold war over Russia. As I read the summary on the back of the book I was more than somewhat confused. Confused to why in the world could the author write any important piece of literature centered on a search for these meaningless eggs for a meaningless cake at an meaningless wedding?” The whole idea of the book just seemed ridiculous and silly to me. Why eggs? Why would the author choose to write a book…

His death brought upon the rise of the pigs because they were the most cleaver animals on the farm. After rebelling, the pigs made laws that needed to be followed. “Beasts of England” would have to be sung every day, and on the anniversary of “Battle at the Cowshed” one shot would be fired from Mr. Jones’ gun. Later in the story, Napoleon and Squealer start to take advantage of some of the animals. The intellectually inferior were easy to gain as followers, like Boxer and the sheep.…

Historical fiction. A two letter word a genre that wasn’t my style. I decided to read Between Shades Of Gray written by Ruta Sepetys, because of all the miraculous books reviews I have read on good reads. At first, I was worried, I’m the type of girl that reads books that are meant to teach a lesson, books that will change my life, I thought to myself how will Between Shades Of Gray change me? I have never been more amiss about a genre in my life. Between Shades Of Gray ultimately made me into…

During the second world war, the Nazis and the Romanian army invaded the Soviet Union, thus most of the western regions of the Soviet Union and its Communist allies were falling under German occupation. This, along side Stalin’s paranoia about the Slavs that were not Russian, led to the Soviet government’s reactions towards its own allies and people near the end of the Soviet Union, as it could be understood as “If Hitler considered the German attack on the Soviet Union as a colossal ‘struggle…

Stalin: Dat Boi In the 1945 classic, Animal Farm, George Orwell uses a simple fable-style tale to exhibit how the shadow of tyranny that progressively engulfs an English farm relates to the timeline of the Russian Revolution and the Stalin Era. With the collective effort of the animals to successfully rebel against their oppressive farmer, they soon adopt the maxim: “All animals are equal” and aim to live in a classless society from that point on (Orwell 4). Although this is the animals’ initial…

it quickly turned into a dystopia. He created an artificial famine that killed millions in the Ukraine as well as trying the quick route to industrialize caused even more deaths (Koestler 53). In addition, No. 1 created his own secret police, the NKVD, which virtually acted as the Gestapo. Moreover, He put false allegations on Rubashov for betraying and conspiring against the party in which he is then executed. The Bolsheviks tried to create a utopia and in turn, they created a totalitarian…

Compare how two Authoritarian leaders consolidated and maintained their power. “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” –Joseph Stalin. This quote perfectly embodies how Stalin and Hitler successfully maintained their power, by physically and mentally manipulating people into submission. Both Russia and Germany were under crisis before the respected leaders took over. After the takeover of the Provisional Government during…

How is Macbeth and Joeseph Stalin have the same traits as each another? Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than twenty-four years, inputting a reign of terror while making Russia great again and helping to defeat Nazism. Though defeating Nazism sounds like a good guy thing to do Stalin is arguably worse than Hitler but, how is this connected to Macbeth a guy so interesting it spark William Shakespeare to write about him easy enough the book was called Macbeth. The Shakespeare play is…

Disintegration of the USSR happened mainly because the late Soviet leadership renounced the very forces that forged the Soviet empire and that propped up Bolshevik government’s modus operandi since its inception. In 1917, the yoke of repression was heated by Lenin, and through 1953 cooked by Stalin in complete totalitarian fashion. Gorbachev, however, resolved to govern differently not realizing the policy contradictions that would ultimately lead to USSR’s demise. If Gorbachev were the same…