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If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves","Political Report of the Central Committee, 1927",[132,134,136],{"title":133,"summary":133},"Communist who created one of history's most extreme personality cults",{"title":135,"summary":135},"Internationalist ideology while promoting Russian nationalism",{"title":137,"summary":137},"Ally against fascism who signed pact with Hitler and invaded Poland",0,13,35,72,[143],{"archetype_slug":50,"strength":144,"description":145},6,"He took vanguard communism to a totalitarian extreme, imposing forced collectivization, a command state, the Great Terror, and the Gulag across the Soviet Union.",[147],{"is_primary":113,"traditions":148},{"id":149,"name":150,"slug":151,"short_description":152},11,"Marxism","marxism","The intellectual and political tradition founded by Karl Marx, taking his analysis of capitalism, class, and historical change as a starting point."]