What leads the author to conclude that the
Soviet Union can only be known as a police
state?

the Soviet government has very strict and oppressive control over the people.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.

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