Millions of Soviet peasants starved to death when collective agriculture failed.
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Answer this question… They created mass starvation throughout the country.
It basically killed all the Old Bolsheviks that could remember Lenin, and allowed Russia to be ruled by the younger Bolsheviks who had been taught to follow Stalin. Alternative: Stalin's terror affect not too much population at all. Many people mix Stalin's terror with anti-criminal processes. For usual Russian people, Stalin's terror was no more than newspaper header.
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Between 1945 and 1947, Soviet-controlled communist governments took control of East Germany.
decades of war between Eastern and Western Europe.