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==Villainy== | ==Villainy== | ||
While formally the office of the General Secretary was elective and wasn't initially regarded as the top position in the Soviet state, | While formally the office of the General Secretary was elective and wasn't initially regarded as the top position in the Soviet state, after [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin Vladimir Lenin]'s death in 1924, Stalin managed to consolidate more and more power in his hands, gradually putting down all opposition groups within the party. This included [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky Leon Trotsky], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army Red Army] organizer, proponent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution world revolution], and principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. Instead, Stalin's idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_one_country socialism in one country] became the primary line of the Soviet politics. There exists [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism Stalinism], an ideology that Stalin founded and implanted in the Soviet Union. | ||
==World War II== | ==World War II== |