POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE DESCENT OF THE IRON CURTAIN
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With respect
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Poorly, with little assistance
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They were put on a pedalstool
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Treated well
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stalin ruled by terror, with a totalitarian grip in order to eliminate anyone who might oppose him. He expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on one another and had millions of people killed or sent to the Gulag system of forced labor camps.
Detailed explanation-2: -Agricultural Reform Peasant and wealthy farmers who refused to sell their extra products were heavily taxed. Wealthy farmers responded angrily by destroying their crops and killing their livestock. Stalin punished them by destroying their homes and deporting most of them to Siberia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stalin enforced a ban on party factions and banned those party members who had opposed him, effectively ending democratic centralism. In the new form of Party organization, the Politburo, and Stalin in particular, were the sole dispensers of ideology.