Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party and later serving as Premier. He consolidated near-absolute personal power through the 1930s, imposing rapid industrialization and forced agricultural collectivization and carrying out the Great Purge, a campaign of mass repression that killed hundreds of thousands of people. As a central Allied leader during the Second World War he directed the Soviet war effort against Nazi Germany, and his regime's wartime victory and postwar consolidation of power over Eastern Europe made the Soviet Union one of the world's two superpowers, even as his rule is widely condemned for mass repression, deportations and famines that caused millions of deaths.
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Stalin personally dissolved the Comintern as a wartime gesture to the Western Allies.
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Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953.
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18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878
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5 March 1953
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Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party and later serving as Premier.
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Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953.
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1941-1945: Chairman, State Defence Committee of the Soviet Union
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Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953.
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Stalin unilaterally dissolved the Comintern on 15 May 1943.
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Some historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement
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Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Churchill said that "the liberation of Prague...by US troops might make the whole difference to the postwar situation of Czechoslovakia and might well influence that in nearby countries." Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, wanted Soviet forces to take the city, and asked that the Americans stop at Plzeň, 50 miles (80 km) to the west.
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