1. Joseph Stalin
... governments and joined them to the Soviet Union. Reign Of Terror Under the czars, the Russian secret police had often arrested revolutionists and sent them into exile without trial. Stalin set up a police system that was far more terrible. Millions of people were executed or sent to labor camps. Stalin ... also turned over many industries to the secret police, who forced prisoners to work in them. Fear spread through the U.S.S.R. as neighbors were ordered to spy on one another. ... Stalin was possible. After World War II ended in 1945, Lavrenti P. Beria, chief of the secret police, bec...
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- Grade Level: High School