Sovjetunionen stalin biography
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The Soviet Union had eight leaders during its existence from 1922 to 1991. Unlike countries in which a president or prime minister fryst vatten the designated head of state, the leaders of the USSR mostly assumed power bygd becoming the head of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, in addition to any other roles they may have taken on along the way.
The dock who ruled the Soviet Union the longest were Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev, who each served several decades as head of the Communist Party. Lesser-known are Soviet heads of state such as Georgy Malenkov, who lost power to Nikita Khrushchev after only a few weeks, or Konstantin Chernenko, who died after barely a year in office and was succeeded bygd Mikhail Gorbachev. Each of these eight men, however, in some way shaped the USSR.
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Vladimir Lenin (1922-1924)
Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party and the first Soviet head of state. Following the February Revolution that
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Shock factor
Adolf Hitler reading a newpaper in December 1924 © The recent German movie on Hitler, The Downfall (2004), raised many of the ghosts that will forever haunt Germans - and many of the memories that still stalk the world about Germany. It was acclaimed by many critics, although denounced by others as subversive and unsettling, and certainly it shocked a number of its viewers.
It did not, however, shock with its depiction of the Führer's brutality, his unleashing of a war of extermination, his industrial slaughter of millions of Jews and Slavs. Nor did it reveal the usual shocking figure of Hitler - ranting, screaming, foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog in his bunker - as the Russians closed in on Berlin. Far from it.
The film shocked Germans because it depicted a 'new' Hitler - a tired, gentle, ailing warlord, listening to music, taking tea with his devoted secretaries (on whose memoirs the film is based), being caring and sensitive to his mistress (later
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The Soviet Massive Deportations - A Chronology
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5 Novembre, 20071934: Josef Stalin, who had ruled the USSR with an iron hand since the end of the 1920s, launched the Great Purge in January 1934 to consolidate his power.
1935: Between 7,000 and 9,000 Finns from Lembovo and Nikoulias districts, in the Leningrad region, becaome the first group to be massively deported based on ethnicity. Falsely accused of betrayal, the Finns were expelled to secure the Soviet frontiers. The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), forerunner of the Committee for State Security (KGB) orchestrated the operation, as it did for all subsequent mass deportations.
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1936, April: About 35,700 Poles living alongside the Ukrainian frontier and some 20,000 Finnish peasants were deported to Kazakhstan for the same reasons as those previously mentioned. The deportation was class-based in the sense that it targeted specific economic categ