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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, 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 | 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 Leon Trotsky, the Red Army organizer, proponent of 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 socialism in one country became the primary line of the Soviet politics. There exists Stalinism, an ideology that Stalin founded and implanted in the Soviet Union. | ||
==World War II== | ==World War II== |