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Stalin

[ stah-lin, -leen, stal-in; Russian stah-lyin ]

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noun

Joseph V. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili, 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
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Stalin

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noun

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Stalin

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StalinJoseph18791953MRussianPOLITICS: leader Joseph . original name Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili . 1879–1953, Soviet leader; general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53). He succeeded Lenin as head of the party and created a totalitarian state, crushing all opposition, esp in the great purges of 1934–37. He instigated rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture and established the Soviet Union as a world power

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More than half the population of Crimea was Russian, mainly because the original majority population of Crimean Tatars were deported under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1944.

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He said she was an unreconstructed communist who loved Josef Stalin and drank heavily.

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They are the Soviet nostalgics, longing to be ruled by Stalin’s iron hand.

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Although the city’s history goes back to the Middle Ages, it was rebuilt under Joseph Stalin after World War II as a kind of triumphal arch and a gateway to Moscow, 700 kilometers away.

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“It’s bald, naked imperialism, and it’s on the order of Stalin.”

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