14h 29min, feb 9, 1946 y - Stalin's Election Speech- Joseph Stalin delivered an "election" speech to voters in Moscow. _

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6 Important Facts:

1.) Stalin ran campaigns twice for the electoral political office in the USSR and won both times.

2.) The speech was delivered via radio to the national audience.

3.) It was never published in a pamphlet form by the communist party in the US, nor by the CPGB in UK.

4.) Stalin announced that there would be another war because of "Capitalist development of the world economy."

5.) Stalin called for the nation's concentration on defense in advance of a war with Western nations.

6.) The speech was just a ploy to make the Soviet Union appear democratized.

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