In the Communist Soviet Union: a. people who spoke out against the government were killed or used as slave labor.
b. the people elected all the government officials.
c. there were two distinct, powerful political parties.
d. poverty decreased significantly.

A. People who spoke out against the government were killed or used as slave labor.

Explanation:

Stalin during his regime had a very paranoid system whereas anyone who spoke against the communist dictator or the government was either killed or sent to the gulag to work as a slave. These were called "purges" and Stalin had many Russian lives killed due to his paranoia and purges.

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for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: