It is true that single party states need enemies, but it is a whole other issue as to if they ¡§invent¡¨ these enemies just because they are needed. Stalin possibly purged 20 million people in the USSR between 1924 and 1939, but these people were not simply created out of nowhere. Stalin carefully chose the people that he purged; they were all his potential, if not actual, enemies. To legitimize his party, and to keep his firm grasp …showed first 75 words of 823 total…

…showed last 75 words of 823 total…not deal with them. Those enemies need not have been created or invented by Stalin; they were already in existence. It should be understood that Stalin killed those people with a reason in mind, however paranoid and unrealistic they are to historians now, that he needed to protect himself and communism from threatening opposition forces. Stalin never even needed to resort to ¡§inventing¡¨ enemies since he saw so many ones already in place around him.