How was life under Stalin regime?

Answer 1

The Stalinist regime was one of oppression, and when it came to mass murder, he was one of the all-time greats. You can begin with the deaths (mostly by starvation) of the kulak farmers (the government line was that they were aristocrats--shades of the French Revolution!), go on to the periodic purges he conducted in his own party, and last but not least, his treatment of those who professed religious faith.

Some set the estimate of his victims as high as 20 million or more--seems he might have been able to claim he wrote the book on how to carry out murder on a grand scale.

Answer 2

Stalin imposed a socialist economic model. The government, in the name of the people, owned the factories, farms, mines, and other means of production. People could no longer own their own profit-making businesses and farms, as in the capitalist system. Government economic planners decided what and how much should be produced each year, what the prices should be, and what wages should be paid to the workers.

Following Stalin's model, planners emphasized heavy industry such as steel making and coal mining. Consumer goods like automobiles, clothing, and TVs became scarce and expensive. The government guaranteed everyone the "right to work," but this often meant a low wage doing a dirty job.

With the emphasis on industrial production, smoke billowed from factories and industrial waste flowed into rivers. Pollution became a major problem, but little was done about it. Factory managers were under pressure to meet production quotas. Consumers demanded more goods. Planners mainly ignored environmental problems.

In most countries, the government took over privately owned farms. It combined them into large, state-owned agricultural enterprises or cooperatives where farmers shared the land and equipment. Eastern European farmers often resisted this collectivization of agriculture, but the communist governments applied special taxes and denied health benefits to force them to comply.

A few years after Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact, a military defense alliance with most of the Eastern European communist countries. In 1956, Hungarians revolted against their communist regime. The Soviet Union and several other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded Hungary and brutally put down the revolt.

The Hungarian Revolt shocked Eastern European communist leaders, forcing most to enact economic reforms. The reforms placed more emphasis on producing consumer goods, eased up on farm collectivization, and even allowed some private free enterprise.

Answer 3

Marshal Stalin was a great Leader of USSR who took over the Bolshevik Party after Lenin and ruled the Country of 15 republics from 1924 till his death in 1953. We may disagree with his methods, but there is no question about his dedication and ability to make his Country into a world power at par with UK and USA. His Five Year plans were forerunner for other countries to follow. He ruled the huge USSR with iron hand. He brought complete transformation in the lives of people by his far reaching programmes. He was a great Leader and a visionary. He was in center of History of the world for about 35 years.

Answer 4

Stalin was dictator that claimed to be a Communist. Millions of people starved to death because of forced collective farming, thousands of political prisoners were sent to prison camps in Siberia or other Gulags, the Secret Police (KGB) had absolute power and exercised it, political rivals just simply disappeared - forever, the entire economy of the USSR wasn't based on a demand system but to keeping people toiling, no private ownership of property, permission was required to do the most routine things, the government had all rights.

Answer 5

Life was not good. People were afraid for their lives and afraid to say anything to anyone. Famine, death and death camps.

Answer 6

For whom? Ones were killed, others with fear, others were sent to Siberia and some did OK.

Answer 7

if you asked someone who lived under Stalin's rule they would be obligated to say "VERY, VERY, VERY REWARDING".....LOL

Answer 8

peaches and kite flying and fluffy clouds across blue skies...
Sheesh...