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the mid '30s he launched a major campaign of political terror and deportations to labor camps which touched virtually every family. The USSR suffered greatly in World War II and Stalin personally directed the war against Nazi Germany despite the fact that in 1938 he signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler. After the German invasion in 1941, the USSR became a member of the Grand Alliance, and Stalin, as war leader, assumed the title of generalissimo. He turned against the Germans, notably at the Battle of Stalingrad, and in 1943 participated in the Allies' meetings at Tehran, Yalta, and 1945 at Potsdam. After the war he extended Communist domination over most of the countries liberated by the Soviet armies. |
Churchill, Roosevelt and
Stalin
at the conference of Teheran,28th Nov. to 1st Dec. 1943.
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