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{{Infobox officeholder
| birth_name   = Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili
| image        = Stalin.jpg
| caption      = Joseph Stalin, 1939, aged 61
| office1      = [[General Secretary]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| term_start1  = 3 April 1922
| term_end1    = October 1952
| predecessor1 = None (Position created)
| successor1   = [[Nikita Krushchev]] (as '''First Secretary''')
| office2      = [[Premier]] of the [[Soviet Union]]
| term_start2  = 6 May 1941
| term_end2    = 5 March 1953
| predecessor2 = [[Vyacheslav Molotov]]
| successor2   = [[Georgy Malenkov]]
| birth_date    = {{birthdate|1878|12|18|df=y}}
| death_date   = {{dda|1953|03|05|1878|12|18|df=y}}
}}
'''Joseph Stalin''' ([[December 18]] [1878]] (other {{cn}} [[sources]] say 1879) – [[March 5]], [[1953]])<ref name=bbc/> was the adopted name of the [[Communist]] [[dictator]], Iosif Dzhugashvili. He was the second [[political]] [[leader]] of the [[Soviet Union]], after [[Vladimir Lenin]]. He was a [[totalitarian]] ruler, and stayed in power by removing anyone he thought might be a threat to him. His ideas and [[wikt:policy|policies]] turned the Soviet Union into a powerful, modern nation, the largest state on Earth, but also led to the deaths of millions of p(contracted; show full)[[war:Joseph Stalin]]
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