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"I�m writing an essay on the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Can you give me any pointers?"
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"The first strategy of Fluid Thinking is to place events or situations into a wider context as a means of understanding them better. The Soviet Union, rather than appearing out of nowhere, had evolved via a period of considerable instability � both economic and political � during the 1920s and 1930s. By the time of the outbreak of World War Two in 1939, Soviet leader Josef Stalin (1879-1953) was presiding over a country ravaged by famine and poverty � much of it caused by his own poorly-thought out policies, which involved clubbing farms together, and forcing out peasants he didn�t like (they were known as �kulaks� and blamed � unfairly - for many of Russia�s problems).
"Soviet Russia � therefore � was weak going into the Second World War, and this is probably why Stalin decided to agree to a surprise pact with Nazi Germany in August 1939 (The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). The pact gave Stalin time to build up his military power, but it also made him complacent about the prospects of a Nazi invasion of Russia itself. When Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union, in June 1941 (called �Operation Barbarossa�), it took Stalin and the Soviets by surprise. This would in turn help to explain the quick and steady progress of Nazi forces towards Moscow during 1941.
"We mustn�t forgot however just how stubborn and defiant Stalin was. We can make here the connection (Fluid Thinking�s 2nd strategy is about perceiving underlying relationships) between Stalin�s ability and capacity to withstand extreme pressure, and the forcefulness and cunning of character he displayed in the years that he staked his claim to the Soviet Union�s leadership following Lenin�s death in January 1924. Rather than stand down or give up, Stalin ordered the infamous �scorched earth� policy (it basically meant that retreating Soviet troops were obliged to burn down houses, crops, food � anything that the Nazi invaders could use in their fight). Gradually, and thanks in part to the Scorched Earth policy (though the cold of the creeping Russian winter was the biggest single reason), the Nazis were pushed back.
"The Soviets scored the first big defeat of the Nazis at St. Petersburg in January 1943. This gave them tremendous momentum, and clout with their foreign allies such as the U.S and Britain. The Soviets were able to drive the Nazis eventually back to the gates of Berlin. In the wake of German surrender and the end of the war in Europe, Stalin used his new-found international clout to form his �iron curtain� over Eastern Europe and establish the Union as a world superpower, which it remained until its collapse in 1991."
"I keep mixing up the spelling for the words �stationary� and �stationery�. Please help!"
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"A big part of the Optimnem Program consists in teaching sensitivity to detail to students, both children and adults alike. With regard your specific query, the word �stationery� means �paper, letters, envelopes, correspondence material� etc. A way of creatively connecting the definition with the particular spelling is to connect the �e� in �stationEry� with the �e� in �Envelopes� (the word stationery can mean envelopes according to above definition). This should help you in future spell each specific meaning correctly, and prevent you from mixing them up again."
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