Stalin's Contributions

This is currently a high school project I'm working on, about Communism in the 20th century. It doesn't need to be a lengthy discussion and argument; just a moderately detailed answer (with whys) would suffice.

1) How has Stalin contributed to the course of history?

2) How do you view Stalin's contribution to the Soviet Union?

3) Who was worse overall, Hitler or Stalin?

4) What's your name/preferred alias and your occupation/preferred description? (Part of the assignment is to get the names & identifiers of people I interview. If real-life details don't work for you, just come up with a made-up name and identity)

Stalin has made 0 positive contributions to the world.

If talking about Stalin, it probably has few or nothing to do with Communism.

Now your questions:

From a perspective that acknowledges a state as something legitimate and/or necessary:

1) and 2) Together: His doctrine greatly sped up the industrial and overall economic and technologica development of the USSR in many senses (although it quite hindered it in others, namely genetics and agriculture). Else, his "policies on Nationalites" helped to diminish nationalist outbursts and conflicts spawning from them. The impact of his policies on the USSR had global implications that are nearly obvious.

Focusing on impact outside USSR: Mainly, his policies contributed to the development of China.

Also, Stalin had an important role in the creation of the State of Israel as he actively supported its creation by providing military supplies, political support for Israel's creation and facilitating emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel early on.

3) By far and large, Hitler. There's no way to even reasonably compare them. In fact, probably the worst thing Stalin did was actually enabling Hitler by providing economic assistance to Nazi Germany prior to the WWII and shortly after it began, and still, it's far from what Hitler did.

4) KP, Mechanical Engineer.

Stalin only helped Hitler because the "allies" all shunned him
or correct me if i am wrong
because their ideologies were "opposites"

but his biggest i would say would be the industrialization of the USSR, which has already been mentioned

Yea, they went to the third reich as an ally for the same reason Vietnam went to the US. Vietnam actually went to the US originally.


But anyways back on topic, the most notable Communists of the 20th are less common names, like artists, writers, musicians, and Trotsky. They might not of had the biggest influence, but Stalin wasn't really a Communist, nor were Castro or Kim Il Sung.