Stalin gave him no encouragement whatsoever, not interjecting, or uttering a sound of any kind.

Joseph Stalin gave advice to Hoxha and stated that Yugoslavia was attempting to annex Albania.

It became Stalin ’ s favorite film and he gave it as a gift to President Roosevelt during WWII.

The 1927 Party Conference gave official endorsement to the policy of Socialism in One Country, while Trotsky along with Kamenev and Zinoviev ( both now allied with Trotsky against Stalin ) were expelled from the Party's Politburo.

Spy Dr. Richard Sorge gave Stalin the exact German launch date ; Swedish cryptanalysts led by Arne Beurling also knew the date beforehand, but Sorge and other informers ( e. g. from Berlin Police dept.

On 5 May 1941, Stalin gave a speech to graduates of military academies in Moscow declaring:

Urged by Stalin, the UK and the US gave in to put the German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line from the Baltic coast west of Świnoujście up to the Czechoslovak border " under Polish administration "; allegedly confusing the Lusatian Neisse and the Nysa Kłodzka ( Glatzer Neisse ) rivers.

In December 1929, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gave a famous speech praising " practice " above " theory ", elevating the political bosses above the scientists and technical specialists.

Roosevelt gave Stalin a pledge that he had been waiting for since June 1941: that the British and the Americans would open a second front in France in the spring of 1944.

On 5 March 1940 Lavrentiy Beria gave Molotov, along with Anastas Mikoyan, Kliment Voroshilov and Stalin, a note ordering the execution of 25, 700 Polish officers and anti-Soviets, in what has become known as the Katyn massacre.

Adolf Hitler gave Joseph Stalin free rein over these countries and he made immediate use of this to set up Soviet military bases in Estonia and Latvia in late 1939.

The independence of the Union Republic of Kazakhstan gave Omsk an international border to the south, while continued federal policy aiming to rectify the effects of Stalin Era population transfers a national German district created an area with a significant, although not a dominant, German population around the town of Azovo.

Stalin claimed that they were the " commission " authorized by the Politburo and gave assurances that death sentences would not be carried out.

The winds began to change his way after Stalin gave his guidance on this incident.

Deutscher was still a committed Trotskyist, but in the book Deutscher gave Stalin what he saw as his due for building a form of socialism in the Soviet Union, even if it was, in Deutscher's view, a perversion of the vision of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky.

It also gave Stalin and his Communist Party greater control over Soviet culture ; restricting people from expressing alternative geopolitical ideologies that differed to those represented in Socialist Realism.

Stalin gave Malenkov the most important task-building nuclear missiles in collaboration with Lavrentiy Beria.

Elements of the Soviet Army stood only 20 km ( 12 mi ) away but on Joseph Stalin's orders gave no assistance: Stalin described the rising as a " criminal adventure.

Chiang Kai-Shek opposed USSR ’ s accession of Tannu Uriankhai, a former Qing Empire province ; Stalin broke the treaty requiring Soviet withdrawal from Manchuria three months after Japan ’ s surrender, and gave Manchuria to Mao.

In a secret speech he gave in 1956, Khrushchev denounced Stalin and his domestic policies largely loosened the government's grip over the country.

Stalin soon made a public decree that any and all opposition views should be considered dangerous and gave the GPU the authority to seek out hostile elements.

The resulting fall-out between Stalin and Tito in 1948 gave the Bulgarian Government an eagerly-awaited opportunity of denouncing Yugoslav policy in Macedonia as expansionistic and of revising their policy on the Macedonian question.

The novel The Thaw gave its name to an entire era of Soviet cultural politics, namely, the liberalization after the death of Joseph Stalin.

Almost alone among Western scientists, John Desmond Bernal, Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, made an aggressive public defense of Lysenko and some years later gave an obituary of ‘ Stalin as a Scientist .’ However, despite Bernal's endorsement, other members of Britain's scientific community retreated from open support of the Soviet Union, and may have been one of the chief reasons for a retreat from Marxism in that country.

However, Alexander's policies later encountered opposition from other European powers stemming from developments in Italy and Germany, where Fascists and Nazis rose to power, and the Soviet Union, where Joseph Stalin became absolute ruler.

However, the balance of power changed in international relations: in Italy and Germany, Fascists and Nazis rose to power, and Joseph Stalin became the absolute ruler in the Soviet Union.

Similar shifting alliances were played out amongst various dissident factions within the CPSU, such as the Workers Opposition and Left Communists, with Joseph Stalin and his supporters gaining absolute power within the party by the mid-1920s.

He was now the ultimate source of authority in the Soviet Union, but would never possess the absolute power Stalin had.

Stalin continued his absolute rule until his death.

Aware that the Soviet military was the only institution which could successfully obstruct his quest for absolute power, Stalin set out to " liquidate " Tukhachevsky and seven other senior commanders.

According to Montefiore, Stalin had always known that the Red Army was the only institution which could have resisted his quest for absolute power.

Congress investigated Elliott numerous times: for the attempted sale of bombers to the USSR ( 1934 ); for allegations of broadcast industry corruption ( 1937-45 ); for the Blaze affair ( his dog ’ s travel on emergency war priority, 1945 ); for his promotion to general, demanded by his father ( 1945 ); for the Hartford loan scandal ( 1945 ); for his denunciation of U. S. foreign policy during a visit to the USSR ( capped with a visit with Stalin ) ( 1946 ); for the Hughes F-11 purchase ( 1947 ); and for involvement with organized crime and securities fraud in Miami and the Bahamas ( 1973 ).

From the early days of the Stalin era, Group A received top priority in economic planning and allocation.

In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).

When Beria told Stalin about the Manhattan Project and its importance Stalin handpicked Molotov to be the man in charge of the Soviet atomic bomb project.

While Khrushchev, the Communist Party, and the Soviet Union's supporters in the West viewed the Gulag as a deviation of Stalin, Solzhenitsyn and the opposition tended to view it as a systemic fault of Soviet political culture — an inevitable outcome of the Bolshevik political project.

Oranienburg was also the center of Nazi Germany's nuclear energy project and according to military historian Antony Beevor, the launching of the Battle for Berlin by Stalin was motivated by his desire to acquire that facility.

USSR tested its own Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 in 1942, but the project was scrapped by Joseph Stalin in 1945.

Thus, shortly before his death he wrote in Remembering War ( Keyssar, Posner, 1990 ) that he had been shot down three times, had been taken captive by the Germans and, after a week, escaped riding a burro ; that a Russian pilot mistakenly shot him down, and that the Russian was promptly shot ; and that he negotiated the shuttle-bombing project directly with Stalin in May 1944.

A carefully prepared visit in August 1933 to the White Sea – Baltic Canal may have hidden the worst of the brutality from a group of 120 Russian writers and artists, the so-called Writers Brigade, including Maxim Gorky, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Viktor Shklovsky, and Mikhail Zoshchenko, who compiled a work in praise of the project, the 600-page Stalin White Sea – Baltic Canal (), published at the end of 1934.

A version of events, supported on one occasion by the Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and made popular through the literary works of Marin Preda, credited Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin with the idea for the Canal – a project which was supposedly based on the Gulag

( Communist leader Ana Pauker, who, like her collaborator Vasile Luca, opposed the project, told her family that Stalin personally " proposed " the Canal in late 1948 ).

On July 18, 1953, the project came to a discreet halt, all work being suspended for another 23 years ( according to some sources, the closure had been ordered by Stalin himself, as early as 1952 ).

Among others, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named, but he refused to join and in his talk with Andrei Sakharov he motivated this decision by his opinion that it was not right to restrict the scope of the project to the Stalin era only, since the repressive era in Russia started as early as 1917.

In 1949 she did not support the construction of the Danube-Black Sea Canal, even though, according to her own testimony, Stalin had personally proposed the project.

They were opposed by a group of Georgian Bolsheviks, described by their opponents as " national deviationists " and led by Filipp Makharadze and Budu Mdivani, who advocated tolerance toward the Menshevik opposition, greater democracy within the party, a moderate approach toward land reform, and, above all, called for greater autonomy from Moscow and stubbornly opposed Stalin ’ s project of uniting all the three Transcaucasian republics economically and politically.

He is noted for his anti-revisionist positions describing the Soviet project of collectivisation and industrialisation under Joseph Stalin as the working class's willing " forgo ( ing of ) consumption in order to build the mighty Soviet state " and other Stalinist policies.

He was quite open about his opposition to the Danube-Black Sea Canal — a pet project of Dej, apparently recommended by Joseph Stalin himself.