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Lenin and Stalin in 1922 Lenin re-established limited economic freedom throughout Russia in 1921, but he ran the country and the Communist party in an increasingly authoritarian way. Stalin carried the process much further and eventually built a regime based on harsh dictatorship (Sovfoto)
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Stalin refused Marshall Plan assistance for all of the Eastern Europe. He purged the last remaining non-Co9mmunist elements from the coalition government of Eastern Europe and established Soviet-style, one party dictatorships. The seizure of power in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 was particularly brutal and antidemocratic, and it greatly strengthened Western fears of limitless Communist expansion, beginning with Germany. Thus, when Stalin blocked all traffic through Soviet zone of Germany to the former capital of Berlin, which has also been divided into sectors at the end of the war by the occupying powers, the Western allies responded firmly but not provocatively. Hundreds of planes began flying over the Russian roadblocks around the clock, supplying provisions to the people of West Berlin and thwarting Soviet efforts to swallow them up. After 324 days, the Russians backed down, containment seemed to work. In 1949, therefore, the United States formed an anti-Soviet military alliance of western governments, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in response, Stalin tightened his hold on his satellites, later united in the Warsaw Pact. Europe was divided into two hostile blocks. ~Page 967

A HISTORY OF WESTERN SOCEITY
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. . . The intelligentsia’s disaffection with Russia and Stalin had certainly begun by 1939, but it was not shared by all those on the left. Indira, like many in the India League circle, still those on the left,. Indira, like many of the India League circle, still looked to the Soviet Union, even in the wake of Stalin’s show trials and the Nazi-Soviet Pact. If what Indra called ‘world imperialism,’ Chamberlain and appeasement were the best that the parliamentary democracies could offer, Stalin’s Soviet Union seemed the only alternative. As one historian has observed, a good many fellow-travellers and sympathizers remained loyal to the USSR, and ‘the prestige’ – and the gullibility – of Western intellectuals were considerable assets to Stalin’. ~ Page 155

INDIRA
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Introduction

One of the most important aspects of this diary is is careful and honest reflection on rape in war. The whole subject of mass rape in wr is hugely controversial. Some social historians argue that rape is a strategy of war and that the act itself is one of violence, not sex. Neither of these theories is supported by events in Germanu in 1945. There hae indeed been cases of rape being used as a terror tactic in war – the Spanish Civil War and Bosnia are two clear examples. But no document from the Soviet archives indicate anything of the wort in 1945. Stalin was merely amused by the idea of Red Army soldiers having “some fun” after a hard war. ~ xix

A WOMAN IN BERLIN
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