Stalin

Joseph Stalin was perhaps on of the biggest mass murderers of the twentieth century. From the purges in the Red Army to forced relocations, Stalin had the blood of millions on his hands. This essay is not going to debate the fact that this was indeed a brutal and power hungry individual, because he was indeed just that. I will on the other hand show you that through his way of governing the Soviet Union, …showed first 75 words of 3038 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3038 total…period only an iron fisted rule could bring about change fast enough to due any good. True in the short term peoples right were trampled upon and millions died from famine, purges, and the war itself but in the end hundred's of millions were saved. Alexander Werth, Russia at War, (London: Barrie and Rockcliff, 1964) Isaac Deutscher, Stalin, (New York: Oxford University Pres, Inc 1967 Walter Laqueur, Stalin the Glasnot Revelations,(Ontario:Collier Macmillan Canada, Inc, 1990), p.209.