Destroying his enemies Using a police a state to main power ( stopping riots, monitored telephone lines, read mail, and planted informers everywhere, children told authorizes about disloyal remarks at home, constant arrest, executing of millions of traitors) The great purge ( killing any who threatened his power, thousands of Bolsheviks who helped stage the REvolution in 1917, they were sent to labor camps or killed, in total killed 8 to 13 million people) Stalin gained total control of the SOviet government and the communist party Controlling news, movies, radios, and other sources of info Propaganda and censorship Education and Indoctrination ( government controlled all education from nursery to universities, learning virtues of communist party) Religious persecution ( spread propoganda of attacking religions ,getting rid of religion and putting in communism, many people held onto religion, police destroyed church's and synagogue and many relgious leaders wre killed or sent to labor camps, religious people were persecuted

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