“He brought his country and his people nothing but harm”. To what extent do you agree with this assessment of Stalin"s domestic policies in the USSR between 1939 and 1953?

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  He brought his country and his people nothing but harm”. To what extent do you agree with this assessment of Stalin"s domestic policies in the USSR between 1939 and 1953?
  
  
  Stalin"s influence on the history was extremely negative. Although his policies turned the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrialized country with a powerful military arsenal, this kind of transformation was achieved by the sacrifice of millions of lives of Soviet people. Stalin"s distrust to the West"s and his pretention for Soviet predominance in Eastern Europe led to the Cold War. Stalin"s purges of Soviet people by violent terror left a terrific memory of people under his rule. Despite the fact that Stalin was admired by some Russians, now most of them agree that he was one of the most ruthless rulers of the world history.
  J. Stalin ruled Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. During his governing he used cruel methods to strengthen his power and governed the country by means of terror.
  To secure his power and to encourage spread of socialism, he put the country on the path of collectivization and industrialization. More than 23 millions farmers have been forced to work at the farms of the State. Only collectivization killed about 15 million Soviets, and country’s agricultural output declined by 25 %.
  In 1928, Stalin set the New Economic Policy, which had been introduced by Lenin in 1921 in order to promote postwar economic restoration by stimulating limited private enterprise which already did not work. The economic growth has slowed, and the peasants did not produce enough grain to meet the necessity. Instead of giving stimulus to farmers to order to increase their production, Stalin preferred a policy which has forced them to work into State farms.
  At the same time Stalin continued with the policy of rapid industrialization, which was started with the first Five Year Plan in 1928. His idea was that the Soviet Union should be forced for quick industrialization in order to support the communist regime. The plan was financed by the use of resources in rural areas, resulting in ruin of the agriculture and the loss of millions of peasants from starvation. Industrialization has been fulfilled by means of great loss.
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