Was Stalin Russia's saviour or misfortune?

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Was Stalin Russia’s saviour or misfortune?

There are many arguments about Stalin being Russia’s saviour or misfortune; there is no doubt that Stalin brought Russia forward economically and industrially quicker than Russia could have taken; but also there is no doubt that Stalin was a paranoid-megalomaniac who was the reason for millions upon millions of deaths. I will look further into this subject and then come to a conclusion if Stalin was Russia’s saviour or misfortune.

          

        Stalin was mentally unstable, he sent more than 20,000,000 people to their deaths to win world war two. This paranoid-megalomaniac stated that, “One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is just a statistic.”

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Stalin also used the purges and collectivisation to put fear into the peasants. He sent kulaks (peasants which didn’t give there land away to the USSR) into Gulags (which were concentration camps situated in Siberia) where they were left to rot. The purges also ended in famine, which could have been avoided as Russia had enough food to feed everyone, but were selling the produce to other countries. This killed 20,000,000 peasants in the space of 5 years.

Even though collectivisation was greatly successful in the economical department as you can see 20,000,000 you could say is ...

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