Answer:
Option: A. the union was more focused on cutting off resources to opposing forces.
Explanation:
During the Civil War, the Unions plan focused on cutting off resources of the Confederacy. The Union planned to put a blockade in all Southern coasts to eliminate the help from foreign countries. This blocking strategy came to be known as the Anaconda Plan. The Union also wanted to control over the Mississippi River. The river played a significant role for the South because it was the last port on the river held by them. Confederate troops provided goods and ammunition to Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas.
Joseph Stalin is a textbook dictator that was not choosing means in order to strengthen his power and control of the country. Stalin's tactics were mostly consisted of fear, elimination, and imprisonment. In order to avoid and confrontations and strong political opponents, Stalin eliminated pretty much everyone that his people were able to capture and was posing a political threat to him in his eyes. These people were either killed in cold blood, or were taken in the Gulag where they died because of the terrible conditions. Everyone that was going to express an opinion against Stalin or the Communist Party was targeted and was ending up in prison, usually never coming home again. In order to nullify attempts for separatist movements, which was highly possible considering the numerous ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, Stalin was systematically killing, imprisoning, or relocating people of certain ethnic groups in order to break their nation core and identity.
