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=** Who? **= = = = = Josef Stalin When Lenin had died in 1924, (the previous leader of the Soviet Union), Josef Stalin took over as the new leader. Ukraine had been fighting for independence for years, but it never seemed to happen. When Stalin took over, there was no point in even dreaming for independence. Josef Stalin created a totalitarian state in the Soviet Union, where the single party controls the government and every aspect of people's lives. Stalin was a strict leader, and would not let anyone get away with disagreeing with his beliefs. If innocent people refused to agree with his ways of work, people would be shot to death, or sent out to camps where they had to work all day in cold conditions, and rarely get any food to eat. Josef Stalin's ideas and beliefs were the cause of seven million deaths. Josef Stalin created a famine in Ukraine as a punishment for all of the people that disagreed with him. Josef Stalin had ordered all of his forces to steal the shoes, clothing, and other items of families who would soon have their farms taken away from them, and would soon be killed, or sent out to torturous camps. As for the other people of Ukraine who have not had their houses stolen, or have been sent out to the cold Siberia to work as slaves, they had starved. There was nothing to eat. People were so eager to have food, that in every day street markets of Ukraine, dead bodies would be sold for other people to eat. As the genocide went on in the Soviet Union, some people took actions that would hopefully let them gain their freedom and independence. The victims of the genocide would burn their houses down so Stalin's forces would not be able to take away their homes. Some people were even strong enough to assassinate Stalin's forces which put them to extreme trouble. This usually resulted in death, or harsh labor camps. Stalin killed seven million people of the Soviet Union in one year. Stalin did a horrible thing to his people who were only seeking for independence. Stalin expected his forced famine to change the beliefs of other people about communism, but it only made Ukraine cry for freedom. Children Victims of Stalin's Forced Famine

=** Works Cited **=

"Stalin's Forced Famine." //historyplace.com.// historyplace, n.d. Web. 4 June. 2010.

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