... by the British and French capitalists. She was beaten by the Japanese barons. All beat her because of her backwardness, military backwardness, cultural backwardness, political backwardness, industrial backwardness- (Internet Site 3). If Joseph Stalin had not introduced measures to rapidly industrialise Russia before Nazi Germany invaded in June 1941, Russia would have completely defeated and its army swiftly destroyed as ... first Five-Year Plan; it was designed to industrialize the USSR in the shortest possible time... The plan, put into action ruthlessly, aimed at making the USSR self-...

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