Stalin Primary ambition was to turn what he believed to be the industrial backwater that was the Soviet Union into an economic a world superpower. His goal was to make up decades or even years of time in just a single decade. By the definition of his goal he succeed he had turned a mostly agricultural country into an industrial super power, but it did not come without a cost. Those cost fell on the soviet working class in two ways the first was their atrocious living conditions and the second was their personal freedoms. The first situation was the living class of the people in the document that people had 150 grams of mutton and no vegetables to live off of. They ate what was compared to dish water by the writer. They also worked extensively both in their jobs and in technical schooling. Another section discusses how the people lived only off of black bread, and suffered from lice and disease because they did not even have soap. Stalin progress had harmed the people which he was claiming to help. His goal of industrialization had damaged his people and like torture to a dying man he also took away their rights. …show more content…
The passage talks about how people would be forced to give up their only cow and forced to sign a receipt that it was voluntary, but if they refused they would be jailed. The government did not care about the people it took their property in the name of the general good but failed at even providing them with food and other necessities. Stalin killed stole and enslaved his own people with complete disregard for them, and worse he did so while having the stomach to say it was for their own