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| 1 | When was Stalin born? |
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1879 |
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1883 |
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1870 |
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1875 |
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| 2 | What does 'Stalin' mean? |
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Man of Steel |
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Miner |
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True Communist |
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Man of Iron |
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| 3 | What did Stalin train to be before joining the Bolshevik party? |
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A steel worker |
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A priest |
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A miner |
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A banker |
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A teacher |
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A farmer |
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| 4 | What position did Stalin hold in 1917? |
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Chief photo manipulator |
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Head of Propaganda |
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Deputy to Lenin |
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Party Leader |
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Editor of Pravda |
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| 5 | Why did Stalin take the position of Party Secretary in 1922? |
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Other leading Bolsheviks had turned it down |
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In the democratic and fair party elections, Stalin was voted the new secretary by a small majority |
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He was the most popular choice |
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| 6 | What did Stalin use the post of General Secretary to do? |
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Gain respect and enhance his reputation within the party |
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Hoard as much money as possible without anyone noticing |
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Find out everything that was going on and fill all posts with his supporters |
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| 7 | In 1922, Lenin wrote a 'political testament' - what two suggestions did this make? |
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Everyone should read Animal Farm, as it was a great book |
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Trotsky should be the next leader, and senior Bolsheviks should find a way to get rid of Stalin |
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Communism had been a failure, and the country should adopt Social Democracy |
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| 8 | After Lenin died in 1924, why was the 'political testament' not published? |
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Stalin made sure it was 'lost' |
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Lenin was declared insane, so his writing was deemed worthless |
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Bolshevik leaders didn't want Trotsky as their leader - he was so unpopular |
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| 9 | Between 1924 and 1929 how did Stalin managed to force leading Bolsheviks out of power? |
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Using his previous newspaper experience, 'revelations' were published destroying the reputations of his rivals |
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He sided with one group, and then another, gradually isolating the other leading Bolsheviks |
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Unfortunate 'accidents' and 'tragic incidents' befell Stalin's rivals |
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| 10 | When did Russia become the Soviet Union? |
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October 1927 (10 year anniversary) |
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The name was used by 1929 |
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February 1927 |
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1928 |
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| 11 | Who was Stalin's main target for 'removal from power'? |
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Kamenev |
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Bukharin |
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Trotsky |
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Zinoviev |
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| 12 | When Stalin had control of the Soviet Union, what did he immediately do? |
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Improved communications |
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Implemented a police state |
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Commenced rearmament |
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Began to change agriculture and industry |
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| 13 | Stalin ended Lenin's NEP and began to force all peasants to join Collective Farms - what were these? |
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Peasants had to pool their machinery and livestock on large farms, which were controlled by the State |
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Peasants had to collect all their crops by hand and send half the profits to the local town hall |
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A specific quota for production was set, and if any peasant failed to produce the quota they were shot |
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| 14 | Kulaks, richer peasants, were totally opposed to Stalin's poicy - what happened? |
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Kulaks burnt their crops and killed their animals rather than hand them over - more than 5 million Kulaks were murdered or starved to death |
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They all signed a petition that was delivered to Stalin. He then decided to alter his policy |
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Kulaks tried to resist, but saw that it was futile to do so. They agreed to go along with Stalin's policy. |
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| 15 | What was the problem with Collective Farms? |
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The farmers never produced as much working together as they did working on their own - a devasting famine was the result |
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The peasants didn't follow orders properly - many peasants hid produce and a black market grew and grew - resulting in a devastaing famine |
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Peasants were forced to hand over their produce and were either paid wages or had to feed themselves on what was left over - the result was a devastating famine |
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| 16 | How successful was Stalin's agricultural policy between 1932-1934? |
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5,000,000 people starved to death and agicultural production fell by 15% |
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Many people died, but agricultural production rose by over 27% |
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After inital problems with the Kulaks, production rose by 13% and moral in the USSR had never been higher |
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| 17 | Collectivisation was part of what? |
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An enormous disaster |
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Stalin's general economic policy (GEP) |
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The first Five Year Plan |
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| 18 | What was each business or factory given under the Five Year Plan? |
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10% of the profits the factory or business made |
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Enormous publicity and large bribes if it topped the production tables |
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A target it had to meet every year |
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| 19 | What was 'Gosplan'? |
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A general plan made applicable to all aspects of industry and agriculture of the Soviet Union |
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An organisation with 500,000 workers who did nothing but produce and check targets for every factory and works |
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A new city developed near Siberia for the development of new weapons technology to help the USSR develop greater capability that their rivals. |
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| 20 | What was done to the first Five Year Plan to make people work even harder? |
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The length was doubled - it became a ten year plan |
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It was cut to four years |
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It was lengthened to six years |
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| 21 | What happened if targets were not met? |
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If targets were not met, a new manager would be introduced who would put the factory on 'special measures', resulting in constant inspections, paperwork and meetings |
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Factories or businesses would simply be closed, and the workers would starve |
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Punishments were severe - managers of factories could be executed, workers were not allowed to change jobs and being away from work became a crime |
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| 22 | What happened if you objected to Stalin's methods? |
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Those who objected ended up in slave labour camps called Gulags, based in Siberia or Northern Russia. |
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You were expelled from the USSR in disgrace |
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If you objected, you were put to death - a simple choice: work or die. |
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| 23 | Many factories met the production figures easily - how was this? |
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The actual targets were fair and reasonable - if a factory was working properly it could easily meet the targets |
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So long as the numbers were right, nothing else mattered - many factories faked the figures or disregarded the quality of production |
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The targets set were randomly chosed - some factories got ridiculously easy targets while others got totally impossible targets |
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| 24 | The first three Five Year Plans ran from 1928-1941 - how successul were they? |
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Both agricultural and industrial production eventually increased, but at enormous cost in human life |
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They increased industrial production by 400%, but it is difficult to say how much of the increase is genuine |
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Terribly unsuccessful, production fell, the quality of finished product fell and moral fell - a disaster! |
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| 25 | Who was murdered in December 1934? |
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Zinoviev |
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Leon Trotsky |
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Sergei Kirov |
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| 26 | As a result of the murder, Stalin initated 'The Purges' - what were they? |
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A democratically elected authority to murder anyone who opposed the Soviet leader |
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A new healthy eating and fitness drive to cut heart disease |
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A means of removing any perceived opposition |
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| 27 | Who suffered as a result of 'The Purges'? |
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Bolshevik leaders, poets, scientists, managers of industries that failed to meet targets, senior officers in the Red Army and Red Navy, and ordinary citizens |
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Foreign citizens suspected of being spies, Tsarist supporters and terrorists. Each person suspected had to go through a long judicial process to make sure of their guilt |
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Anyone who had failed to follow orders and consequently found guilty in the independent courts of law |
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| 28 | As part of 'The Purges' what were leading Bolsheviks given? |
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'Show Trials' where they were forced to confess to ridiculous crimes which they could not possibly have committed |
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The chance to confess openly and fairly. If this was done they were then set free and given an official 'Stalin pardon' |
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A long 'holiday' in Siberia |
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| 29 | What was the 'Revision of History'? |
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Where Stalin introduced a two year plan to improve history results in schools |
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Where Stalin begain to rewrite the history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century |
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Where Stalin set out the Communist plan to dominate the world and remove the evil of global capitalism |
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| 30 | What happened to school books as the result of the 'Revision of History'? |
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They were destroyed or altered, and children had to paste over pages in their books with new versions |
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School books became up to date, balanced and fair resources on revisionist history |
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They became well used as a result of all the extra work set by Stalin |
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| 31 | Why did Stalin introduce the 'Revision of History'? |
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We've already answered this - to improve history results in school |
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He wanted to destroy the reputations of the other Bolshevik leaders |
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He felt the version being taught in schools was not comprehensive enough - a pre-1900 foreign culture needed to be introduced |
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| 32 | Stalin picked on Trotsky in particular - why? |
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He hated him - simple as that |
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Lenin had chosen him as his successor |
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Trotsky was always causing trouble, and had written many anti-Communist books and articles |
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| 33 | Stalin wanted to make out that only he knew what Lenin had intended to do with Russia - why? |
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Stalin did know what Lenin intended to do with Russia - and he just wanted to get on with it |
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Stalin had had many conversations with Lenin before he died, but nobody believed him |
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This would help Stalin justify why he became leader and would make Russians accept him |
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| 34 | What did Stalin do to make it appear that he and Lenin were very close? |
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Had many paintings produced with them together, altered photographs so just he and Lenin were in them, and had Lenin's body preserved in a huge mausoleum in Red Square |
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Forced Lenin's family and relatives to write books and attend public rallies proclaiming that Lenin real chosen successor was Stalin - Trotsky had taken advantage of Lenin in his final days |
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Issued photos of himself and Lenin talking, planning and discussing Communist policy whilst at University in Brussels together |
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| 35 | What was the 'Cult of Personality'? |
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Where Stalin wanted to build himself up to be all-powerful and stop anyone opposing his ideas |
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An underground rival group to the Communists. They rose up in attempted revolution in 1937 but were viciously crushed by Stalin |
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A competition held each year to praise the Soviet worker who had put in the most effort, improved worker morale and had never been absent |
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| 36 | Stalin made sure everyone knew about his successes - what did he use to pass on the news? |
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Many forms of propaganda - but his favourite forms were paintings and sculptures |
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He ordered ten different 'independent' newspapers to be produced, each praising him from a different angle |
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Word of mouth - he forced factory managers to proclaim his brilliance in early morning breifings |
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| 37 | What happened to Leon Trotsky? |
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He moved from country to country, constantly on the run from Stalinist agents, and was eventually killed in an machine gun attack on his house |
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He was murdered by ice pick in the back in August 1940. The Soviet Union disclaimed any responsibility |
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After leaving the Soviet Union in 1929 he lived the rest of his days in Brazil quietly farming |
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| 38 | Stalin died in 1953 - what age did he live to? |
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63 |
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68 |
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73 |
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| 39 | What was Stalin's real name? |
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Joseph Vadrimittiv |
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Joseph Djugashvili |
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Jospeh Jdushgah |
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| 40 | Who murdered the most people? |
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Pol Pot |
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Stalin |
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Hitler |
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Mussolini |
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