jan 1, 1929 - Stalin declared dictator

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- Joseph Stalin was a dictator of the USSR from 1929-1953
- Expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on one another, and had millions of people killed or sent to the Gulag system of forced labor camps
- Launched a series of Five-year plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower, but millions of farmers refused his orders were shot or exiled as punishment, which caused the famine
- In 1930, He conducted a purge of people who posed a threat to him

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