Stalin was a man of mixed reviews.
There are countless labels about him, such as cruel, strong, cunning derogatory words, which can also be appropriate for the natural transition to the leadership temperament, iron will and other positive words.
The coldness of steel, the hardness of iron, may be the biggest footnote of Stalin's life.
So what about the real Stalin? What did he mean to the Soviet Union?
In fact, from his experience of being arrested 7 times and imprisoned 6 times before the fall of Tsarist Russia, it may be possible to see some truth.
(Young Stalin)
When he was young, Stalin was a man who always put his head on the waistband of his pants to carry out the revolution, and the firmness of faith was rare in the world.
In March 1913, the name Stalin first appeared in his own article "Marxism and the National Question", and from then on, steel (Stalin) became his pen name and later became his official title.
In 1914, shortly after writing this article, Stalin was again arrested and imprisoned by Tsarist Russia and sent to a Siberian labor camp for nearly three years as a coolie.
In the nearly three years of labor camp from 1914 to the beginning of 1917, there were as many as 117 people who were sentenced to prison with Stalin, of which 89 did not survive the bitter cold of Siberia, and Stalin, who had a strong personality and a good body, stubbornly survived.
Not only did he survive, but what many people at that time praised was that he had a firm belief in the three years of working as a coolie in the labor camp, and never betrayed any of his comrades in exchange for his freedom.
This particular experience gave Stalin widespread recognition after his release from prison.
(Siberia is not a place for people to stay)
Long revolutionary experience, firm revolutionary will, and perfect imprisonment history became the capital for Stalin's promotion.
After his release from prison, he soon became one of the main leaders of the CPSU Central Committee.
With an important position and the publication of monographs, Stalin proved himself capable of writing.
Later Stalin also proved himself capable of fighting, as the commander of the cavalry brigade, he led the cavalry, fighting the bandit army in the Ukrainian region, all the way from the Volga River to Minsk. The knife techniques refined in the war are even more difficult to underestimate.
At that time, Stalin was an excellent figure capable of writing and martial arts, and there was no doubt about this.
This is a necessary quality to be able to take on the heavy responsibility of leadership, and another quality of Stalin, cold enough, is also reflected in the follow-up.
With the end of the civil war, the Soviet Union finally stabilized and began to prepare for the restoration of the economy.
But Stalin was still not at ease, and at the moment of post-war liquidation, he presided over the shooting of more than 20,000 white bandits and more than 100 former Russian nobles.
In the years that followed, Stalin, who had always believed in imperialism's selflessness and immortality, upheld the style of steel in the internal struggle after Lenin's death, and used his fierce wrists to eliminate his political enemies one by one and create his absolute authority.
(Stalin and Lenin)
After attaining supreme power, the Soviet Union began a single-minded process of industrialization under his leadership.
Under stalin's leadership, the Soviet Union imported various industrial equipment, technical management processes and even professional talents from Europe and the United States by sacrificing agriculture to feed industry, through the funds obtained by industrial and agricultural scissors, and with the help of the Great Depression.
For a time, the eyes of the capitalists of Britain and the United States were all focused on the Soviet Union, and a ship of complete sets of equipment was transported to the Soviet Union, and under the mutual benefit, American and British capital actually became the main force to help the Soviet Union industrialization.
In a short period of time, after two five-year plans, the Soviet Union changed from an agricultural power to the world's second largest industrial country, and built a perfect heavy industrial system and a military industrial system, all of which also made the Soviet Union's strength leap forward and prepared for the subsequent Soviet-German war.
(Achievements of industrialization in the SOVIET Union)
At the same time that the Soviet Union gradually completed its industrialization, Germany also began to soar after the rise of Hitler.
In 1933, Hitler officially became the first man in Germany, thus ushering in an era of madness.
In this era, Hitler, with his tongue and shrewd wrist, made a drastic change in Germany.
The economy resumed development, the military industry was reborn, and the armed forces were rebuilt.
He also took the time to host an Olympic Games in 1936, and the thriving Germany gave Hitler great prestige, and if there was no subsequent war, Hitler would have become a bismarck-like presence.
Unfortunately, success was followed by the beginning of madness, and the appeasement policy of Britain and France and the expansionist policy of Germany complemented each other.
From the Sudetenland to the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, france, after a round of expansion, the fall of Europe became more and more intense.
Conspiring with Germany to divide Poland, arbitrarily annexing the baltic states, attacking Finland to build a defensive line to the north, the pure nationalist Stalin calculated everything and exhausted all means, except for Hitler's madness.
(Blitzkrieg)
On June 22, 1941, the Germans implemented the Barbarossa Plan.
The 5.5 million Axis forces, divided into three separate attacks, detonated the worst battle for all mankind to date: the Soviet-German War.
Stalin, who had received the news, was blinded by the sudden blow, and after a full week of living, he recovered from the blow, and then launched a general mobilization speech.
In the first half of the war, the German army was like a bamboo, the Soviet army was defeated, 3 million Soviet troops were wiped out, and 4,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft were lost. In the city of Kiev, where Stalin fought alone, more than 600,000 Soviet troops were captured.
In the face of such a huge blow and the reality of the fear of national subjugation, if there is no iron will, the country will collapse.
For no other reason than him, the Germans, on the other hand, were the most powerful army ever invaded the Soviet Union.
He was not comparable to the French army that attacked the Soviet Union in 1812, and there were many cobbled together servants in the French army at that time.
At that time, the German Army was the strongest army in European history composed of 3 million professional soldiers, with countless tanks and aircraft.
(Attacking Germans)
In the moment of crisis, Stalin withstood the pressure, and the Soviet Union did not collapse.
On November 7, 1941, moscow's Red Square, the anniversary of the October Revolution was held as scheduled amid enemy fire.
At such a special moment, more than a hundred thousand officers and men of the Red Army walked majestically and angrily through the rostrum to be examined by Stalin and countless high-level officials. The citizens of Moscow, on a cold winter day, watched this group of young men rushing to the battlefield, and shouted Ulla with tears in their eyes.
Along with the sound of Ulla came Stalin's words:
The soldiers, commanders and political workers of the Red Army and the Red Navy, partisans of both sexes, the whole world is watching you and seeing you as the main force capable of eliminating the German aggressors. The peoples of Europe, enslaved by fascists, are watching you and seeing you as their liberators. A great mission has fallen on your shoulders. Do not fail in this mission! The war you are fighting is a just war of liberation.
Putting aside all prejudices, Stalin and the Soviets at that moment were undoubtedly brave and tenacious, worthy of respect.
The soldiers were walking with their weapons loaded, and the people did not give up with tears in their eyes.
In the face of German bombardment, the young men rushed to the battlefield of the Defense of the Country in only 20 minutes after the review.
Three months after the Red Square parade, the German army smashed the German typhoon plan and inflicted heavy damage on the German Army Group Center. Under the city of Moscow, the Germans reaped the first major defeat on the Soviet-German battlefield.
(Red Square military parade 1941)
The war is still going on, victory is far from coming, and the situation is still not reversed.
In 1942, the Soviet army still had few victory moments, and the morale of the soldiers in the temporarily formed new army had always been problematic, war-weariness began to spread, and there were many deserters under panic.
Morale-boosting means, what else is there besides speeches? The answer is severe punishment!
Subsequently, the much-maligned Order No. 227 appeared: Do not retreat one step!
Stalin used the most powerful overseers, with the most cruel punishment, to unite the hearts and minds of the army once again with the will of steel.
Although it was so uncomfortable, the military heart was really reshaped.
Subsequently, the Soviet Union formed an endless army, and a steady stream of predecessors and successors rushed to the battlefield, which made the Germans terrified. Countless times sighed, why are there so many Soviet troops who can never finish fighting?
After more than a dozen consecutive major battles, three and a half years, from Moscow to Stalingrad, Kiev, Minsk, Warsaw and finally Berlin. With great sacrifice and indomitable courage, the Soviet army overthrew Nazi Germany.
Not to mention the Anglo-American Allies, when that group faced the Germans, they basically did not contribute much, and did not do much.
Throughout the Soviet-German battlefield of World War II, Stalin led his army to eliminate more than 5 million German troops and destroy more than 20,000 tanks in four years, while today's boastful Anglo-American Yangkees, together they eliminated 500,000 Nazi German troops.
After reading this, I wondered what Stalin meant to the Soviet Union. He was Soviet steel.
During the revolution, he had an iron will.
During the period of construction, the industrialization of the Soviet Union came because of him.
During the war, the victory of the Soviet Union began with his name.
A man who never yields, the only thing that can conquer him may be death.
This is Stalin, who has mixed reviews.
Based on the Soviet Union, he was incomparably better, because this agricultural country he came to became the poles of the world after he left.
Based on the Soviet Union and the people of the world, it is up to the people of the world to see what is going on!
Based on his opponents, all his achievements may be different.
The only certainty is that he is worthy of the Soviet Union, even though he is Georgian.