Why did Stalin kill so many people?

Who is joseph stalin how many people did he kill and how did he kill them?

• I just need a really fast copy paste from wikipidia or whatever with that info How did he kill them why did he kill them how many was the really a bad person? etc etc.

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  This is my summary of Stalin. Josef Stalin born Iosef Jughashvili in Gori Georgia. Attended seminary school to become a priest where he became involved with a students group that introduced him to banned literature and socialism. Realized the church wasn't for him and left. Some say he was kicked out. Was basically the money man for the socialist movement. Trotsky organized the Red Army Stalin robbed banks to fund it. After the revolution when Lenin died power was split between Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev on one side and Trotsky and Bukharin on the other. Lenin intended Trotsky to be the leader. Stalin slowly eliminated Bukharin and Trotsky. Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico while staying with painter Diego Rivera. Bukharin was executed in Russia. Stalin then furthered his power by eliminating Zinoviev and Kamenev by bogus trials and executions. Person by person Stalin eliminated all potential enemies and had all his allies so paranoid of being watched they would turn on each other at any hint of disloyalty. Stalin had total control. Solzhenitsyn the author was sent to a Gulag for writing a letter to a friend criticizing comrade Stalin. Russia was then placed under a forced modernization and collectivization which resulted in massive famines. The people of the Ukraine bore the brunt of this. By todays standards; it is classified as an attempted genocide of the people of Ukraine. The number of Ukrainians that starved to death has been listed between 15-60 million. Military service became mandatory for everyone. During WWII he had his generals march wave after wave of poorly equipped and badly trained Soviet Soldiers into the German war machine. Refusal to obey blindly led to everyone from Generals to the lowest private being executed, if they where lucky, tortured by the NKVD or sent to the Gulags or labor camps if they weren't. He died March 5, 1953 of a stroke. Was he a bad man? Yes and no. Stalin was a siege socialist, he believed in building socialism from within and the great cause spreading by example. If Trotsky had taken power, things would have gotten really bloody. Trotsky believed in spreading socialism by war and revolution throughout Europe. So in that aspect, Stalin was the lesser of two evils. Secondly. Stalin's forced collectivization and modernization of the Soviet Union allowed for them to take a serious bite out of Nazi Germany's army. You can wave the American flag as much as you want, that war would not have been won if not for the Russians. They lost anywhere between 11-17 million civilian casualties and 20 million soldiers. This is not including the starvation deaths. His policies also put the first satellite into space, the first dog into space and the first man into space and created a military machine that had even the US shitting their pants. Under Stalin, Russia produced more doctors and teachers to be sent to Third world countries for humanitarian and granted propaganda reasons. Also, literacy went from almost 0% to 100% within a few generations. Science, the Arts, Sports and medicine made huge strides under Stalin. He also almost wiped out religion entirely in Russia ( I personally thing was a good thing ) He also lived in the same Daka ( people's housing ) as everyone else in Russia. His only extravagance was a piano. His successors couldn't say the same. They where pigs at the trough at the people's benefit. On the flip side, he wiped out a large portion of the Ukrainian population, sent untold Russians to forced labor camps where they where literally worked to death, sent millions of others to be tortured to death in Gulags for things as minor as pointing out that Stalin had people's faces literally painted out of all state pictures and all mention of them wiped out of all government records. He also came up with the invisible brand. A red hot poker inserted anally. This is the longer version but there are things missing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Childhood_and_education.2C_1878.E2.80.931899