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=__The impact of Joseph Stalin in the 40's.__= Statistic : Joseph Stalin killed over 20 million of his own people in the 40's alone! Category Connection: Stalin started in the research of nuclear weaponry and this started a chain reaction that led to the Cold war that last from 1947-1991.
 * - Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from April 3rd, 1922 to March 5th, 1953.**
 * - Stalin was a fascist who killed other competitors unti he become the unchallenged ruler of the Soviet Union.**
 * - After Germany violated the pact by [|invading the Soviet Union] in 1941, the Soviet Union [|joined the Allies to play an important role in the Axis defeat], at the cost of [|the largest death toll] for any country in the war (mostly due to the mass deaths of civilians in territories occupied by Germany).**
 * - In After the war, Stalin installed subservient communist governments in most countries in Eastern Europe, forming the [|Eastern bloc], behind what was referred to as an "[|Iron Curtain]" of Soviet rule during the [|Cold War]. Stalin's government was also the driving force in the removal of political killings from the 1948 genocide convention.**
 * - Stalin created** [|Gulag labor camps] **for those who the government couldn't kill but who just put away until they eventually died.**

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