Question by RyTheWiseGuy: What methods did Stalin use to create a totalitarian state?
What methods did Stalin use to create a totalitarian state?
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Answer by Stalin
I don’t know but he sure did do some good shxt
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TabbyTah says
He concentrated the power of the only communist power on himself and relied on few people. Those people who rivaled his authority were assassinated or arrested and sent to detention facilities. Stalin had close control of the press and the media and developed an ideology to justify policing the arts and scientific inquiry. He also generated much propaganda to present himself as the ideal #1 and this was quite effective for a number of years, particularly before and during WWII. The army was purged in the 1930s to get rid of old school Bolsheviks and therefore he also fashioned the armed forces to his own taste and desire.
cfa_pilot says
Censorship, Propaganda, Fear, Secret Police, etc.