Speech Critique

Speech Critique

Joseph Stalin was the first person to control public opinions for Nationalist. He came to power after Lenin and his main aim was to implement the five year plan. During his rule, he focused on the economic growth of the country by building industries. In his speech, Stalin targeted the middle class peasants and influenced them by presenting the idea that the backwardness of their country was due to lack of monetary incentives. They can be great like other nations that he mentioned specifically for example Mongols of India, Turkey, Sweden, Poland, Britain, France and Japan. In spite of the vast progress in Russia, Stalin was still not satisfied; Moreover, he aimed to reach the peak culturally, military, politically, industrially, and agriculturally. His speech was mainly targeting the industrial managers which he considered the core of the country’s progress. This portrays Lenin’s determination to make Russia efficient than the rest of the world in every field. His way of addressing depicts his tempting energy and ability to sacrifice himself and his belongings for his country. He is deviating their attention and telling them the importance of their lives for Russia. He started his speech influentially by calling his people “Comrades”; showing his intense support for communism (equal equality). With an immense persuading tone and choice of words like tempo and beaten, he tries to show that is impossible for Russia to beaten by any other nation if they keep their tempo high. In his speech, he recalled to his people the famous words the revolutionary poet “You are poor and abundant, mighty and impotent, Mother Russia” to emphasize on how important it is to bring change in Russia because if a country will not be strong, other nations will try to take over them because historically the strong has always aimed at beating up the weak which he referred as law of exploiters in his speech. In the speech he visualise the people that they have all the...