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Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle
Stalin at least made the USSR a superpower even if he did so with blood. After Stalin's death Zhukov became deputy defence minister and he and Konev arrested and executed Beria as part of the power struggle for the vacuum between him and Khrushchev.
On topic....damn Reki is scary as hell...
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Its not that hard to make a nation superpower when you take everything from people and use their labor force for free.
Theres a difference to Hitlers managing and Stalins managing. Hitlers actually was useful for people (at least at first) and the economy and power rose with that. Stalin on the other hand was using pretty much outlaw techniques and forced labour. And it never was beneficial for people.
How many died because of the starvation due to this raise to superpower? This superpower in a sense was very unstable because inside it was empty and fake - way too much poverty.
There was a very high starvation deaths for a reason - Stalin wanted to boast his superpower and that he was squeezing everything from people.
His superpower was so fake really, specially in early stages.
However terror was the glue to keep it together and prevent it from falling apart. When terror started to fall the Soviet Union started to crumble.
Kruschev was well nothing really. He is most famous for his ideals to grow corn on the moon. He was more of a comical figure than terror like really.
If you are enjoy killing then you are a psychopath than assassin really.