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World War II opened unlimited opportunities for Stalin to spread Communism
throughout the world, but there was nobody left in the Soviet Union to reap the crops in
the fields. Famine broke out in the country in 1946 and 1947. One soldier was quoted as
saying: “In this awful regiment, we were awfully hungry. Our rations were very small, plus
they somehow managed to rob us.” e army, which the government was supposed to feed,
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starved. e people, whom the government was under no obligation to feed, starved as well.
e famine of 1946 and 1947 claimed the lives of about a million people. Stalin had sen-
tenced Europe to death, but he could not carry out the execution.
Hitler, according to Stalin’s plans, was supposed to crush Europe, and then Stalin, with
a surprise attack, would “liberate” it from Hitler. In the name of that goal, German tankers
and pilots were trained in the Soviet Union, and Stalin brought Hitler to power. But Hitler
ruined Stalin’s plan.
Some people did not even notice that the Soviet Union lost World War II. Where was
Stalin’s great victorious country? e Soviet Union was created for war and conquest. It was
not adapted for peacetime. It could either spread over the entire planet and kill off all normal
life, or die. Stalin did not succeed in taking over the world, and this meant another war or the
end of the Soviet Union in the near future. e Soviet Union was preparing itself for a new
war, World War III. It concentrated all its strength and resources in preparing for a new war,
and it was crushed in 1991 by the burden of its military expenditures.