How did Joseph Stalin create a totalitarian state in the Soviet Union?
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VerifiedJoseph Stalin created a totalitarian state in the Soviet Union by- Controlling the public and private lives of the citizens, He controlled the people through propaganda spread by state-controlled mass media and the younger generation by indoctrinating them through education and youth groups. Everyone was in a constant state of surveillance. Controlling educational institutions, businesses, housing, labor, land, etc. His secret police created terror among the people and crushed any opposition. He also destroyed anyone and everyone who came in the way of his vision of a totalitarian communist state. For instance, he had thousands of old Bolsheviks executed or sent to labor camps in the Great Purge as he saw them as a threat to his power (876).
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