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Joseph Stalin Part 3: Hitler Attacks

Real Dictators

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The Great Terror by Adolf Hitler

Stalin was sending a message, and Stalin was bringing everybody into line because every single person in the government knew what was going on. And if you knew that your pal had everything kicked out of him, then you would behave. Through fear, fear is at the heart of it. You are putting fear, distrust into the heart of society. And then you can achieve anything. During the Great Terror, at least 700,000 people are executed. Millions are sent to slave labor camps, known as the Gulags. Twenty years after the Russian Revolution toppled the old empire, Stalin has become the czar of the Soviet Union in all but name. He may be more secure than ever at home

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