What is the historically significance of Josef Stallion?

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I believe you mean Josef Stalin.

Uh, there is a lot to say about him.

In the wake of Lenin's death in 1924 (and the suspicious deaths of other important men, such as Trotsky), Josef Stalin became the head of the Socialist Republic... which he slowly turned into the Soviet Union as we seem to remember it today. Lenin had begun to envision a very progressive new society that disagreed with the communist ideas of the early twentieth century just a few years before his death... Stalin ran the opposite direction and, after a few years, established central power over the country and plunged it into an authoritarian state.

Somewhere on the order of about several million Russian citizens died as a result of his three decades of rule, many of whom perished in the gulags (a sort of political internment camp.) Censorship and suspicion abounded, especially for creative new thinkers who were accused of anti-Russian sentiment (which was entirely untrue. The amazing composer Dmitri Shostakovich was a fine example of this shunning.)

Stalin was a product of the October Revolution and his own misguided lust for power. He was totally unprepared for the German invasion in June of 1941, for which Hitler's army marched as far as Moscow by the time winter had rolled around. He was only able to rein in his country because the German's, in a spurt of hubris, had come entirely unequipped for winter warfare. Thus, war production was jump-started in major cities (which were already somewhat operational due to a war with Japan only a few years earlier.)

After Germany surrendered, the Soviet Union began its program of assimilating neighboring countries, for which British PM Winston Churchill would declare that an "ironcurtain" was settling down across Europe. Stalin and his policies were pretty much the chief reason for the beginning of the Cold War. Of course, Stalin set the precedent for his successors, many of whom only perpetuated the situation.

Many historians view him as being worse than Hitler, and they have their arguments. I find that he was less diabolical, but terrible all the same.

I think you mean Joseph Stalin. He defined the 20th century Soviet Union. He was vicious, mean, paranoid, crazy. Just about the prototype of a Psychotic Tyrant. This is the foreground of Russia in the 20th century, a horrid history. He had the ability to make all his enemies or even suspected enemies disappear.

josef...
stallion???

or joseph stalin, the Russian dictator who killed a good 20 million people during the 30's and 40's? He helped us beat Germany in WW2 but that does not justify ANYYTTHING he did during his reign. he shipped people off into the tundra...

he led us into the cold war....

the guy was a weirdo he liked hitler and supported him, he just decided to fight cause hitler tried to take over russia at one point.