ho had aided in his rise through the ranks. With manipulation, propaganda, and deception, Stalin rose to be the leader of Russia. (www.msn.com/index/le/ole3200htm.)He was now in complete and absolute control. Stalin began to implement several "five year plans," which really was a six volume plan on ways to bring manufacturing and business enterprises to Russia. Ultimately, it was an attempt to amass total crop and livestock production maintained under Stalin's regime. Stalin did create industrialization programs in the 30's which helped turn Russia into an industrial power.The first stabs at collectivization went far better than later tries. Stalin's people were very resistant to the new program. As was stated earlier, he was a ruthless barbarian, and in keeping with his profile, Stalin 4had millions of his people executed and many that were not, starved to death because of food rationing. Fear was created through a secret police force which was an important part of Stalinism. By l934, Stalin perhaps in an attempt to eradicate future successors to his title, and also to eliminate more political upheaval within his country, initiated a huge extermination of his own armed force heads of state, as well as Marxist affiliations.Then in l939, Stalin participated in the 'nonaggressionpact' along with the infamous Adolf Hitler. This pact permitted the Soviet Union and Germany to split Poland, and also allowed the Soviet Union easy access to Latvia, part of Romania, a small part of Finland, Estonia, and Lithuania. Stalin, an intelligent but greedy individual, should have known better than enter into any kind of deal with Hitler. Hitler ordered his military forces to invade the Soviet Union within two days after the pact was signed. At first his army was successful but later Stalin turned the tide, near the end of the war. Stalin had stated that, "Our aim is not to destroy all armed forces in Germany, because any intelligent man wi...
