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1849
Jun 8
| 1849 • The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab. |
1931
May 20
Age: 81y
| 1931 • Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states : "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." Intensification of the First Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union for industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. |