Kathryn P's List: Stalin historical investigation

• They did whatever they felt like and only a fool with a death wish would even  consider questioning it.
• spies
• masters of torture, interrogation, plotting, conceiving and carrying out some of  the most covert plans to influence politics around the world.
• stop the spreading ideals of democracy and promote the communistic way of life
• killing a leading opponent of communism was certainly not out of the question.  It was in fact, quite common.

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• Soviet Union was the first state to have as an ideological objective the  elimination of religion
• confiscated church property, ridiculed religion, harassed believers, and  propagated atheism in the schools
• Russian Orthodox Church
• After Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, Joseph Stalin revived  the Russian Orthodox Church to intensify patriotic support for the war effort

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• He helped to turn Russia into a great industrial nation, to defeat Hitler in  World War II, and, after the war, to establish Communist regimes throughout  eastern Europe.
• ar, to establish Communist
• He helped to turn Russia into a great industrial nation, to defeat Hitler in  World War II, and, after the war, to establish Communist regimes throughout  eastern Europe.
• he institutionalized terror and was responsible for the death and deprivation of  millions of people

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