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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [g] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of ...
Maxim Sergeyevich Martsinkevich ( Russian: Макси́м Серге́евич Марцинке́вич, 8 May 1984 – 16 September 2020), better known as Tesak (Russian for Cleaver, Hatchet, Hand Axe, Machete ), [1] was a Russian neo-Nazi activist, media personality, vlogger, and the leader and co-founder of the Restruct movement which ...
Soviet famine of 1932–1933, with areas where the effects of famine were most severe shaded. The deaths of 5.7 to perhaps 7.0 million people in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 and Soviet collectivization of agriculture are included among the victims of repression during the period of Stalin by some historians.
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva [a] (born Stalina; [b] 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, [citation needed] was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in ...
The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style ), until the October Revolution on 7 November 1917 (25 October). Born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia, to a cobbler and a house cleaner, he grew up in the city and attended school there before ...
List of statues of Joseph Stalin. Statue of Stalin in Stalinallee, Berlin, Germany. Statue of Vladimir Lenin and Stalin at the Leipzig Trade Fair of 1954. Penza, 1954. Lenin & Stalin near Penza Planetarium. Statue of Stalin and Klement Gottwald at the Gundelfingen stone-cutting company. This is a list of former and current known monuments ...
The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, located in Red Square in Moscow beside the Kremlin Wall. [1] Burials there began in November 1917, when 240 pro- Bolsheviks who died during the Moscow Bolshevik Uprising were buried in mass graves. The improvised burial site gradually transformed into the ...
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