Why Is Joseph Stalin Justified

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The first leader that I will write about is Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. Russian leader Joseph Stalin was in power of Russia from 1929 to 1953. Durring this time he was able to create a communist country that drasticlly trasformed into a peasent country into a industrlized military superpower that could rival the United States. Joseph was well know for being a cruel and unjust leader who used his power as the leader of Russia for personal gain. Joseph also began to kill many civilians and innocents simply beacause he thought that they were enemies of the state and were atempting to rebel against him. The killings of innocents and others was justified in the eyes of Joseph Stalin and others in power becasue of a large sense of paranoia that made them feel as though …show more content…
Somtimes I wonder if there is I will ever be able to leaver here, or will I just die like everybody else and if I do how will it be? Will it be a quick and painless bullet to the head?" "Or will I freeze with this pain in my stomach suffering as I die?". I do not think that the violence and killings were justified. My reasoning behind this is because there were ways that Joseph could have help his country become stronger and fight back any fear of some other country from taking over. I belieave that he got away with these horendous crimes because his was able to manipulate the media and the rest of the country into thinking that these actions were justtifed. The last leader that I will write about is the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong. Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong was in power of China from 1949 to 1959. Mao Zedong was a chinese communist leader and one of the founding memebers of the People's Republic of China. Mao is better known for starting the Cultural Revolution a attempt to make the youth of China to get rid of old Chinese customs and to preseve the communist ideology in

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