Original sentence: During his time as dictator of the USSR, Stalin made frequent use of his secret police, gulags, and nearly unlimited power to reshape Soviet society.He also constructed a brutal totalitarian regime responsible for millions of deaths as a result of various purges and collectivization efforts.This period of the Soviet Union was dominated by Josef Stalin, who sought to reshape Soviet society with aggressive economic planning, in particular a sweeping collectivization of agriculture and development of industrial power
Edited sentence: During his time as dictator of the USSR, Stalin made frequent use of his secret police, gulags, and nearly unlimited power to reshape soviet society.The darkest period of the Soviet Union is characterized by Stalin, a brutal, murderous thug that sent millions to their deaths in his various purgings and collectivization efforts