“This is why the Soviet power is a new form of state organization, different in principle from the old bourgeois-democratic and parliamentary form, a new type of state, adapted not to the
task of exploiting and oppressing the labouring masses, but to the task of completely emancipating
them from all oppression and exploitation, to the task facing the dictatorship of the
proletariat.”
—Joseph Stalin, Foundations of Leninism, 1939

Was Stalin successful in achieving the kind of state he described in this passage? Use specific
examples to support your conclusion.

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