Horrors and history of Communism
Furious Fridays: The Death of Stalin
Furious Fridays The Death of Stalin Last episode we ended with Lenin’s death. The roll out of Communism was well underway and it was time for new leadership. One his last policies before he died in 1924 was the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1922… A mixed economy put in...
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