A characteristic of a person that tends to help people achieve a certain task describes leadership. By motivating and directing individuals, a leader tends to have a greater effect on a group of individuals. Leaders can be harsh and authoritative, but they can also be accepting and encouraging. However, both leadership styles have an important effect on the group of individuals and the nations they govern, both positively and negatively. For example, an authoritarian leadership style is when one person rules an entire nation alone and decides what is good or bad for the country without any input from other leaders. Authoritarian rulers tend to be harsh and authoritarian towards people because they rule an entire nation, but there is only one impact of Stalin's autocratic style was his ability to use violence and create fear in people to show everyone that he would do anything to govern. as long as he can. For example, Stalin created a wild young military group known as the Red Army. The purpose of the Red Army was to patrol the neighborhoods and see if anyone was plotting against Stalin. If they were, the individuals would have been killed and executed. However, they also fought wars with other Western countries. Furthermore, “The Red Army succeeded in perpetuating a brutal totalitarian system at home and in Eastern Europe” (“Red Army” 1). Clearly Stalin was obsessed with power and wanted to rule for as long as possible; anyone who tried to overthrow him was killed immediately because he didn't want a revolution to break out and cause another civil war. Furthermore, Stalin achieved that by creating the Red Army he could kill anyone who even thought of overthrowing him and the government. By creating the Red Army, Stalin managed to become a brutal dictator who ruled for so long, and was also able to completely suppress the people so that he could carry forward the communist ideology. The concept of the Soviet Gulag was another effect of Stalin's leadership style. It consisted of labor camp systems, to which millions of people were exiled during Stalin's reign. “Around 50 million people from across the Soviet Union died in gulags during Stalin's reign, succumbing to starvation, exposure, executions and abuse. Anyone Stalin deemed a threat or potential subversive was sent to Siberia” (Catherwood 1). Clearly, Stalin wanted to achieve his goal of slowly growing the Soviet Union into a superpower. In achieving his goal, Stalin eliminated anyone he considered to pose a threat to him. Also, Stalin