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  1. During World War II Stalin emerged, after an unpromising start, as the most successful of the supreme leaders thrown up by the belligerent nations. In August 1939, after first attempting to form an anti-Hitler alliance with the Western powers, he concluded a pact with Hitler , which encouraged the German dictator to attack Poland and begin ...

  2. May 5, 2024 · The Soviet Union played a crucial role in defeating Nazi Germany. The Eastern Front was the largest and most brutal theater of war, where some of the fiercest battles occurred, including the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Leningrad. Soviet forces eventually pushed into Berlin, leading to Germany’s surrender.

  3. May 25, 2024 · From 1928 until his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union as a dictator, transforming the country from an agrarian peasant society into a global superpower. The cost was tremendous, however: Stalin was responsible for the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens.

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  4. Nov 12, 2009 · In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Joseph Stalin and Germanys Nazi Party dictator Adolf Hitler signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. Stalin then proceeded to annex parts of...

  5. Apr 3, 2014 · World War II. As war clouds gathered over Europe in 1939, Stalin made a seemingly brilliant move, signing a nonaggression pact with Germany's Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.

  6. Two prize-winning historians discuss one’s new work that reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.

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  8. Sep 13, 2021 · Stalin's goals in the early days of World War II were similar to those at the end: to build a buffer for the Soviet Union. In late 1939 and 1940 Stalin invaded or seized part or all of Russia's European neighbors, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, seeking to regain territory lost in World War I. Stalin paid a heavy price for this ...

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