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Stalin

Of the many noted dictators in history, will go down as one of the most, if not the most formidable. He personally had
control over a greater number of people for a longer period of time than perhaps any other dictator, or leader, for that matter.
During his life as leader of the Soviet Union, his influence upon his world and the world at large was formidable. In addition to his
still-critical influence on the world's largest country, he extended ism to the countries of Eastern Europe, where his influence
and methods were practiced right up until 1989. The Chinese and Mao patterned a great deal of their post-1949 society after the
system he built. Even today, North Korea for example, ...

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of Stalin in 1953, it is ironic that perhaps no political issue has been of greater importance to the countries of the
former Soviet Union than dealing with Stalin and the system he created. As the great Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote in
1962:

Mute stood the soldiers on guard
bronzed by the breeze
Thin smoke curled above the coffin.
And breath seeped through the chinks
as they bore him out of the mausoleum doors.
Slowly the coffin floated,
grazing the fixed bayonets
Grimly clenching
his embalmed fists.
only pretending to be dead,
he spied from inside
He was scheming something,
and had merely dozed off to rest.
And I, addressing our Government, petition them to double,
and triple the soldiers on guard by this slab
lest Stalin rise again
and, with Stalin
the past.
The heirs of Stalin walk this earth

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Added: 7/16/2005 06:59:14 AM
Category: World History
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