Original sentence: Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, and his office being nominally but one of several Central Committee Secretariats, Stalin's increasing control of the Party from 1928  onwards led to him becoming the de facto party leader and the dictator  of his country; a position which enabled him to take full control of the Soviet Union and its people
Edited sentence: Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, and his office being nominally but one of several Central Committee Secretariats, Stalin's increasing control of the Party from 1928  onwards led to him becoming the de facto party leader and leader of his country; a position which enabled him to take full control of the Soviet Union and its people.These claims are backed up by the lack of evidence presented by the Soviet Archives concerning the famine.Though other sources claim that is was a Nazi invention as Nazi Germany and American Nazis Newspaper Publisher, William Randolph Hearst, were the only ones to publish such stories