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Among the market leaders of the 20th hundred years, arguably none designed the span of history just as much as Vladimir Lenin (1870-1942), the Communist revolutionary and political theorist who led the Bolshevik Trend that proven the Soviet Union. In addition to shaping the Marxist-Leninist political thought that steered Soviet ideology, he was the first Soviet top until his fatality and set the Soviet Union on its way to becoming one of the world's two superpowers for the majority of the century, in addition to being the West's Freezing War adversary. As it turned out, the creation of the Soviet Union arrived near the end of Lenin's life, as he worked so hard that he had burned himself out by his 50s, dying in 1924 after some strokes experienced completely debilitated him. Near the end of his life, he expressly stated that the regime's power should not be devote the hands of the current Standard Secretary of the Communist Get together, Joseph Stalin. Needless to say, Stalin were able to do that, modernizing the Soviet Union at a breakneck pace on the backs of an incredible number of poor laborers and prisoners. If Adolf Hitler had not inflicted the devastation of World Warfare II upon Europe, it's most probably that the West would consider Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) the 20th century's biggest tyrant. Before World Warfare II, Stalin consolidated his position by frequently purging party market leaders (most famously Leon Trotsky) and Red Army leaders, executing hundreds of thousands of people at the least. Along with Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky led the Oct Bolshevik Trend of 1917 and held crucial posts in the early Soviet governments, but after Lenin's fatality Trotsky was exiled, persecuted and finally murdered at the behest of his arch-rival, Joseph Stalin.