Pros And Cons Of Joseph Stalin

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After the second World War, it became obvious that Joseph Stalin was a cruel, communist dictator as stories of his crimes began to be leaked, and he started to give the go ahead to some morally dubious movements. This tensions escalated towards this date in history, where the Soviet Union made one such movement in blockading East Berlin from the American side with the Berlin Wall. Described as the war that was almost the third World War, the Cold War was one that was fought with proxy wars, and to influence other countries towards communism, fighting against capitalism. Of course, Coca-Cola was the beverage that was closely associated with capitalism, therefore it was often outlawed in communist countries or the bottling factories were destroyed

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