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Quote by: sevendogs  Stalin was a dictator and he has done what Trotsky was going to do anyway. For those who lived in the former Soviet Union he was bad, very bad. WWII began and fascism and Hitler came to power, because of Stalin and Communism factor. Was he good for the rest of the world? You got WWII and Cold War. |
First of all, wrong. Trotsky still believed in communism, whereas Stalin was a pure authoritarain dictator. Facism was invented in Italy, with Facism (the real kind), not Germany. As Nono said, Versailles was much more the reason Hitler came to power.
Stalin brought Russia to world power, making them one of the two major superpowers of the world, and many historians say that Russia may have even won the Cold War had Stalin been around a bit longer.
Stalin was a major part of WW2, creating the power of the USSR during those horrid times, making it so the soldiers didn't have to
share guns as in WW1.
He was premier under major advances in social well being, despite what all the naysayers would have you believe. He oprated in a society that was majorly devoid of common diseases, like typhoid.
Oh, and he helped to start the Space Program, even though Sputnik happned four years after his death.