According to (BBC, 2014) young Communists would go into barren wastelands and set up towns and industries from nothing were called, Pioneers. This is evidence of how devoted the Russian people were to modernising their country and wanting proud of how their culture and heritage. This kind of attitude was of course the reason why the economy plans were successful and Stalin had introduced a system where the best workers would be rewarded this gave the incentive to work more efficiently as workers had low-wages. The kulaks were rich peasants who were successful in farming and were heavily against the ideas of collectivisation and was declared war against by Stalin and almost every kulak were either executed or sent to Siberia, this was evident when as there were 5,000,000 slave workers and kulaks working from the Gulag by 1936 . The Russia people were responsible for Stalin’s economic success because the population were deeply affectionate for their country and wanted to become the best, but work environments were dangerous and a lot of workers had died as a result and was another reason why Stalin’s successes were overlooked.
Stalin’s economic success was overlooked by his regime because of the atrocious things he had done in the name of Russia. Stalin was a necessary evil so that Russia could have been modernised in ten years and become one the leading countries in the world currently due to Stalin’s actions. The rest of world had overlooked his successes, but it now it is an undeniable truth that his economic plans were successful but at a cost of thousands of innocent