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Expulsion of the left wing and Trotsky
In this year Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the party, the latter expelled from the Politburo in 1926 along with Kamenev, who at some point were both Stalin's "left wing", strategically used by Stalin to come to power. Trotsky exiled and sent to Constantinople. -
Beginning of the Five-Year Plans
In 1928, the first five-year plan began with the aim of developing the industry, especially the heavy industry of the USSR without help from other countries. Emphasizing the production of coal, among other minerals.
Likewise, agrarian collectivization was implemented, the kulaks, wealthy peasants who had prospered under the NEP(The New Economic Policy was an economic policy proposed by Lenin, which he called "state capitalism)
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Assassination of the head of the Petrograd Soviet
An attack caused the death of the head of the Petrograd Soviet, Kirov, a member of the Politburo since 1930. The crime was carried out by a communist expelled from the Party, accused of being the instigators of the attack Zinoviev and Kamenev were expelled to Siberia. -
The 1936 Constitution
Compared to the "War Constitution" of the years 1918-1924 with regulations to achieve the objectives of Marxism, this new Constitution, approved on December 5, 1936, evokes recognizing collective social and economic rights, which include the right to work , rest and recreation, health protection, care for old age and illness, housing, education and cultural benefits, freedom of conscience, speech, press, assembly and association. -
The great terror 1937-1938
The NKVD, the Soviet secret police, 'hunt' for 'enemies of the people. More than 1.5 million people were imprisoned, and half were executed.
In the image, Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov, between 1937 and 1938 the purge was carried out in the Red Army, led by Nikolai Yezhov, and which resulted in more than 35,000 arrested, expelled and executed, the majority for espionage and treason. -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
The German-Soviet pact, also known as the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact after the two foreign ministers who negotiated the deal, had two parts. The economic agreement, signed on August 19, 1939, stipulated that Germany would deliver manufactured goods in exchange for Soviet raw materials. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a ten-year non-aggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which each of the signatories promised not to attack the other. -
Death to Trotsky
Since Trotsky's arrival in Mexico, he knew that he was going to die at the hands of the USSR. Because for Stalin there is no third chance, Trotsky had to die in this second, in September 1940 he was assassinated in Mexico by a Spanish communist named Ramón Mercader. In the image, Leon Trosky dying after receiving a blow to the skull and back from Mercader with a mountaineer's pickaxe. Representing how far Stalin's power could go to eliminate his greatest rival. -
Germans attack the USSR
Codenamed "Operation Barbarossa", Germany invaded the USSR in what was the largest German military operation of World War II. The destruction of the Soviet Union through the use of military force, the permanent removal of the communist threat to Germany, and the confiscation of significant land within Soviet borders to establish German settlements. In the image, plan of the invasion by Nazi Germany -
Elections: February 1946 there were elections in the Soviet Union to appoint the 1,339 members of the Soviet, the Union's legislative body.
99.18% of the 101,000,000 voters voted unanimously. A reorganization of the government elected Stalin as President, Defense Minister and Party Secretary. Foreign Affairs Molotov and First Vice President. The most urgent task of this team was the reconstruction of the country, devastated by the war. 25 million dead, an equal number had been left homeless More than 6,500 km of railways out of use and thousands of industrial establishments ruined. -
Five-year plan n°4 and 5 (1946-1950)
In the image, Stalin announcing in 1946 the IV Five-Year Plan, in order to make the USSR an industrial power.
Large projects for irrigation and electricity production and the establishment of research centers and producers of nuclear weapons. No country in the world has ever experienced such an intense construction season. Not only are many factories, mines, sea and river ports, roads and railways built, but also large cities. -
Stalin's death
He died at his dacha as a result of a stroke. Shortly before, he had had his doctors imprisoned. He said they were spies and traitors.
