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When I started to research and look at the text for examples, it challenged my learning. I did not know that Stalin took so many lives and changed many rules. It was different from what I thought because Stalin had created a massacre when people did not follow the communist rules. Stalin took over many peoples’ homes and took their rights away. I did not know very much on Stalin's history and…
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