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'''Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin – the architect of Soviet Union

In the year 1924 [January] with the passing away of Comrade V.I. Lenin the reins of governance of the world’s first proletarian state were handed over to Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin who had so far been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union. As the leader the Comrade started to work with a vision and implemented policies in order to develop the nation that had primarily been dependent on agriculture with a limited industrial base. Education too had been quite limited and was needed which too was to be one of Stalin’s priorities. The tenure began with plans for industrialisation of the Soviet Union on a large scale by setting up iron and steel plants, power generation as well as irrigation projects. He dreamt of a modern Soviet Union that would be different from what it had been. The implementation of this sort of vision required a man with a determination of steel and Joseph Stalin was the right man for it. The implementation of the industrial policy required work to be done on a war footing therefore policies that were hard and stern measures were required to be taken. The going for the industrial groups was tough and challenging hence state owned industries became the need of the hour and this was done. The desired infrastructure facilities were needed and Comrade Stalin ensured that the desired infrastructure was set up. The implementation gave rise to employment that the nation most needed. Infrastructure needed power to work hence mega projects were implemented viz. •	Volga Hydroelectric Project •	Kakhovka Hydroelectric Project on the lower part of Dnieper River •	Tsimlyansk Hydroelectric Project on Don •	Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Project [now Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station] in Samara Oblast Although many of the projects were fully commissioned after the death of Joseph Stalin nevertheless he was the pioneer who implemented these projects in other words they were his brainchild. The Volga Hydroelectric Power Station is today the largest power station in Europe with a power rating 2671 MW and it provides 12 billion kilowatt hours. While Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Power Station [Zhiguli Hydroelectric Power Station] has an installed power of 2488 MW and the average annual production is 11,700 GWh [Giga Watt hour] and Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station has an annual power generation of 1.4 TWh [Tera Watt hour] are the few projects of those times that continue to provide power to the people and to feed the industry. He also initiated mining and harnessing of natural resources such as natural gas and petroleum and coal besides mineral that were all required for industry. The emphasis that he laid on performance of the workers and overall industrial output was along with the welfare schemes that he introduced for the workers and working class that included medical benefits as well as education for their children etc. Facilities such as educational institutions for the children of industrial workers, facilities such as playgrounds, swimming pool etc. were provided in the educational institutions. Health care was given prime importance that had earlier during the autocratic tsarist regime been neglected. This entire implementation needed a food production to be regulated in a manner that the food grains reach the industry and agricultural growth to be accelerated ensuring that there is no deficit. The land was so far in private hands of the farmers or ‘Kulaks’ according to the New Economic Policy; that had been laid down by Comrade V I Lenin as a part of what he had called ‘War Communism’; because of which agricultural production was not uniform. Comrade Joseph Stalin introduced ‘Collectivisation’ as a system that was ‘Collective State Farm’ that would be owned by the state and not by a private person or ‘Kulak’. There were irrigation projects too that were implemented during the regime of the Comrade that were in the Steppe belt in South Soviet Union and also introduced windbreaks around the rivers of Southern Russia that was an attempt to stop the drying winds from Central Asia from damaging the crops that was one of the geographical reasons behind the famines caused. The introduction of this new system was the need of the hour hence the implementation that did face stiff opposition from the ‘Kulak’ in various parts of Russia especially Ukraine, Central Asia and Trans-Volga Steppes had to be put an end to arbitrarily. The peasants [Kulaks] resistance was a move to safeguard their vested interest that had been going against the process of nation building. This was the reason why peasants killed or slaughtered their cattle and destroyed their crops in order to make the situation difficult for the state. The reactionary approach resulted in the shortage of food grains as a result of which there was famine and many innocent lives were lost. Thus it was because of the narrow minded approach of the peasants and their reactionary resistance against the state that was responsible for the major man made famine in Russia. The state was then compelled to take to coercive measures against the unrest as the overall interest of the nation had to be safeguarded. Thus the path adopted by Joseph Stalin was unavoidable and as defined by the contemporary imperialist historians cannot be termed as brutal for those strict measures taken by him had been a necessity during that time. The lobby of Communists who had been the supporters and followers of Leon Trotsky tried undermining the progressive ideas and policies of Joseph Stalin. They were of the view that the Communists in Russia should work for a ‘World Revolution’ an idea that was not at all practical in the given situation. The new system was yet to take roots in Russia and the entire world had been seeking for the ‘Communist Blood’ making all efforts to destroy what they had been defining as ‘Evil Empire’. The Bolshevik Revolution had shaken the entire world bourgeoisie and even the defeat of the ‘White Generals’ in the Russian Civil War did not deter the imperialist nations of the world from working against the Communist order. The problems having been posed by Leon Trotsky and his followers needed to be addressed hence this leader had to be exiled and the enemies of the state had to be liquidated. The execution of the enemies of the state; that was termed as ‘Purges’ by the world capitalists; had become a necessity for the Russian state. It is rather unfortunate that the manner in which the work of Joseph Stalin has been presented is in a negative perspective wherein he is depicted as a mass murderer. The leadership of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin during his tenure of twenty nine years gave Russia education that had none during the Tsarist regime and industrial development that the nation underwent during his tenure was what the Western nations [capitalist nations] had taken one hundred and fifty years. Thus from a not very developed nation Russia became Soviet Union the world’s superpower the credit of which goes entirely to the efforts of Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. He was the architect of Soviet Union. Bold text'''