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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and premier of the Soviet Union. Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically... Read More

BornIoseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili
18 December [O.S. 6] 1878
Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (present-day Georgia)
Died5 March 1953 (aged 74)
Kuntsevo Dacha, Kuntsevo, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
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