sorry for my poor English, but I dare to answer this:
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a) VKP(b) organisation and Stalin himself.a) Who benefitted from killing Bukharin, Trotsky and a large number of other old bolsheviks?
How did killing of Tukchachevsky, and a large number of generals (in late 1930s) help the country to defend itself in 1941?
c) How did forced collectivization (and liquidation of New Economic Policy established by Lenin) help the country to feed itself?
d) How did the deportation of all Chechens (and other national minorities from Georgia, after WWII) to Kazakhstan helped the USSR to consolidate its brotherhood of nations? “
b) Not helped at all, but not caused much harm either, because four-fold increased Red Army in late 1930s was already suffering a lot from the fact of fast grouth.
c) Collectivization helped industrialization, which helped the country to feed itself by mechanizing agriculture, and to protect itself by bringing workforce to cities and increasing arms production manyfold.
d) "Brotherhood of nations" was a socio-political mith, ant it had nothing to do with a real atrocities inflicted to minorities. Besides, chechens and Crimean tatars had suffered for theirs collaboration with Nazis, and individual punishment for this was death a very long prison term, so they got off cheaply.
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