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Stalin assumed leadership over the country following Lenin's 1924 death. Stalin industrialized the Soviet Union, forcibly collectivized its agriculture, consolidated his position by intensive police terror, helped to defeat Germany in 1941–45, and extended Soviet controls to include a belt of eastern European states.
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