When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.

To Stalin it was a matter of life and death.

And Harry Dexter White, implicated in F.B.I. reports in Communist associations, was one of the architects of the Morgenthau Plan, which had it ever been put into full operation, would have simply handed Germany to Stalin.

In 1944, Joseph Stalin said in a speech that artillery was " the God of War ".

In the conferences during World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin openly requested the concession of Soviet military bases on the Straits, even though Turkey was not involved in the war.

After Joseph Stalin was acclaimed as leader of the CPSU in 1929, Pasternak became further disillusioned with the Party's tightening censorship of literature.

Instead, Pasternak was told, " Comrade Stalin is busy.

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

When Stalin died of a stroke on 5 March 1953, Olga Ivinskaya was imprisoned in the Gulag, and Pasternak was in Moscow.

After all that had happened, open shadowing, friends turning away, Pasternak ’ s suicidal condition at the time, one can ... understand her: the memory of Stalin ’ s camps was too fresh, she tried to protect him.

Marshall was particularly discouraged after personally meeting with Stalin, who expressed little interest in a solution to German economic problems.

The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed in July 1953 after the death of Stalin, who had been insisting that the North Koreans continue fighting.

Membership in the party was as much a prerequisite for admission to colleges and for government jobs as in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin or Nikita Krushchev.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

Stalin, the second major contender, and future leader of the Soviet Union, was the least known of all the contenders, and he was not a popular figure with the masses.

But there was a problem ; Stalin was known for his brutality.

To make matters worse, Stalin began espousing his policy of socialism in one country – a policy often viewed, wrongly, as an attack on Trotsky, when it was really aimed at Zinoviev.

At the 14th Party Congress ( 18 – 31 December 1925 ) Kamenev and Zinoviev were forced into the same position that Trotsky had been forced into previously ; they proclaimed that the center was usurping power from the regional branches, and that Stalin was a danger to inner-party democracy.

From then on Stalin was the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union, and other leading officials, such as Bukharin, Tomsky, and Rykov were considerably weakened.

The dispute between Ordzhonikidze and Molotov, who represented the Soviet leadership, was settled by the establishment of a Congress Commission, which consisted of Stalin, Molotov, Ordzhonikidze, other Politburo members and certain economic experts.

In other words, the Central Committee was too weak to protect itself from Stalin and his hangmen.

Stalin opposed the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang because he wanted to expand Soviet influence in the province.

Stalin insisted that, after the war, the Soviet Union should incorporate the portions of Poland it occupied pursuant to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, which Churchill opposed.

Frunze's position was compatible with the Troika ( Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Stalin ), but Stalin preferred to have a close ally in charge ( as opposed to Frunze, a " Zinovievite ").

Khrushchev opposed Stalinism and initiated de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, ending the personality cult of Stalin, purging Stalinists from the Communist Party, and increased the level of freedom of expression permitted in the country.

Stalin opposed the Chinese Communist Party, and Sheng conducted a purge similar to Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.

As the Soviet Union under Stalin manifested itself as a strong centralized authoritarian state, Stalinism and libertarian socialism are almost directly opposed.

Mao and many members of the Chinese Communist Party were opposed to these changes, believing that it would have negative repercussions for the worldwide Marxist movement, among whom Stalin was still viewed as a hero.

Stalin opposed the Chinese Communist Party.

Conflicts erupted within the party, as many of its members opposed collaboration with the Germans while others toed the party line of neutrality as directed by Stalin in Moscow.

Premier Stalin, insisting that his doctors opposed any long trips, rejected Roosevelt's suggestion to meet at the Mediterranean.

According to the biography of Zhou, however, Zhou told others that Zhang ’ s application was opposed by Stalin, as he thought Zhang's status as a warlord made him a poor candidate for CPC membership.

As a young socialist influenced by Leon Trotsky, Schwartz opposed the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union, particularly under Joseph Stalin.

The Polish government-in-exile in London bitterly opposed this and at the Teheran and Yalta conferences between Stalin and the western Allies, the allied leaders Roosevelt and Churchill asked Stalin to reconsider, particularly over Lwów, but he refused.

The CPGB at first supported the war, but after Joseph Stalin signed a treaty with Adolf Hitler, opposed it.

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.

Although he opposed the executions of personal friends like Avel Enukidze, he remained submissive to Stalin, who under the pretext of protecting him had his apartment always watched by NKVD officers.

Stone was also critical of both Lenin and Trotsky for their " cruel and bloody ruthlessness " in deposing the czars of Russia, and later scolded Trotskyists in America for believing that Trotsky would have been any different than Stalin in terms of repressing those who opposed him.

He also supported inner-party democracy and opposed the reestablishment of the one-man rule as seen during the Stalin and Khrushchev Eras.

Stalin opposed the Chinese Communist Party.

The Italian left faction was for the rest of the 1930s led by Ottorino Perrone ( also known with the pseudonym Vercesi ), although it was fiercely opposed to the cult of the personality which was developing in the Comintern around Stalin in these years and resisted similar pressures in its own organisation.

Tribune remained critical of the Soviet Union, however: it denounced Stalin on his death in 1953, and, in 1956, opposed the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution and the British government's Suez adventure.

He opposed the idea that MPs should not have second jobs and stated that " state employed parliamentarians " would be something that " Stalin would applaud ".