... scientists had exploded an atomic bomb, giving them nuclear parity with the United States. The Cold War had begun. Even in his final years, Stalin remained dangerous. He gave Kim Il Sung of North Korea the go-ahead to start the Korean War in 1950, and launched a new series of persecutions at home, this time against the Jews. He seems to ... 1950, Mao and Stalin signed a Sino-Soviet friendship treaty, although the two dictators were wary of one another. In March of that year, the Stalinist leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, came to Moscow. He left bearing one of Stalin's last poisonous ...

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... enemies. By extension, the term has also been used to denote left-wing dictatorships exhibiting some of these features; for instance, Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu, and North Korea under Kim Il Sung. Stalinism is more generally associated with the allegation that-in spite of the hostility of surrounding capitalist countries; Stalin proved that it was possible to construct "socialism in one ... ...

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... enemies. By extension, the term has also been used to denote left-wing dictatorships exhibiting some of these features; for instance, Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu, and North Korea under Kim Il Sung. Stalinism is more generally associated with the allegation that-in spite of the hostility of surrounding capitalist countries; Stalin proved that it was possible to construct "socialism in one ... ...

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... late 1980's and early 1990's. Outside Europe, Mao Zedong set up a Stalinist government in China in 1949. Ho Chi Minh established a Stalinist dictatorship in North Vietnam in 1954, and Kim Il Sung introduced hard-line Stalinist rule in North Korea in 1948. Under Fidel Castro, a government with many characteristics of Stalinism came to power in Cuba in 1959. ...

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