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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 ...
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 ...
Joseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74. He was given a state funeral in Moscow on 9 March, with four days of national mourning declared. On the day of the funeral, hundreds or thousands of Soviet citizens visiting the capital to pay their respects died in ...
Katyn massacre. Main article: Katyn massacre. The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria 's proposal to execute all captive members of the Polish officer corps, dated 5 March 1940, approved by the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, including its leader Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at 22,000.
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 ...
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