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Stalin murdered the communists and socialists in his country?
so how many of the 60 million that he had killed do you think were communist?
Maybe less than half.
The point, which you fail to understand, is that Hitler targeted socialists and communists. Stalin didn't.
Stalin went after socialist if you didn't do what he wanted.
A primary issue around which these party struggles centered was the course of the Russian economy. The right wing, led by Bukharin, favored granting concessions to the peasantry and continuing Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP). The left, represented by Kamenev and Zinoviev, wished to proceed with industrialization on a large scale at the expense of the peasants. Stalin's position wavered, depending on the political situation, and the NEP continued until 1928 with considerable success. Then Stalin reversed this policy and inaugurated collectivization of agriculture and the Five-Year Plan. Ruthless measures were taken against the kulaks, the farmers who had risen to prosperity under the NEP.
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