Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union who transformed Russia into a world super power after World War II. He took the place of former dictator Vladimir Lenin after he passed away in 1924. From the very beginning Stalin was bent on changing the USSR's economy from agrarian to industrial. With his 1928 Five-Year Plans, Stalin launched a rapid start to Russia's industrialization. Stalin believed in the idea of a socialist nation. He formed a pack with Nazi Germany which Germany did not respect and invaded parts of Russia during World War II. As a result, Stalin decided to ally himself with the Allies and Russia took Berlin on May of 1945. Sequentially, by the end of the war the Soviet Union become the second most powerful country of the world.
In my opinion Joseph Stalin was not the best of leaders that history has encountered. He was too worried about making Russia a super power than the actual people in Russia at the time. A lot of Russians suffered and disappeared during the Five-Year Plan. Also, a lot of Russians were put into labor camps and forced to work for the government with little or no pay. Not to mention that millions died in the forming of the USSR's establishment as a super power. Several Red Army leaders that opposed Stalin's ideas and decisions were sent to jail, labor camps, or mysteriously disappeared. I don't think that a leader should be a dictator and definitely should take more care of the people he or she is governing.
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