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Poster of Azerbaijan 1938. Stalin, Lenin

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Poster of Azerbaijan 1938. Stalin, Lenin

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Poster of Azerbaijan 1938. Stalin, Lenin

Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) was responsible for transforming the Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into a global superpower and did not see the elimination of millions of lives as an impediment to the achievement of this goal. Many intellectuals, dissidents, and even many allies were put to death under Stalin. Stalin's expansionism after World War II resulted in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by the West. In turn, Stalin gathered the Eastern European nations that were absorbed into the Soviet sphere after the Second World War under the umbrella of the Warsaw Pact. This, in turn, led to the Cold War and the periodic international crises, and the endless exchanges of hostile rhetoric in United Nations leadership circles until the final years of the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) was a founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917–24) of the Soviet state. He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern (Communist International) and the posthumous source of “Leninism,” the doctrine codified and conjoined with Karl Marx’s works by Lenin’s successors to form Marxism-Leninism, which became the Communist worldview.

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