The Cheka became the GPU, then the OGPU and then the NKVD under Stalin.
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describe Stalin response to this disobedience
Stalin wanted to keep the countries he defeated. He wanted them to become part of communist USSR. Truman and Churchill wanted him to give them up and let them have peace and freedom. Stalin was not having it their way. He kept them and they were under communist rule for nearly fifty years.
No. He was a dictator that killed millions of people under his regime.
It is possible that Stalin could have continued it and industrialized under it, but it was too hard already under his current Communist regime. The NEP and its underlying capitalist values just could not let Stalin's power remain as effective.
Arresting and executing citizens who were suspected of disloyalty to Stalin