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| birth_name   = Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili
| image        = Portrait of Stalin in 1936.gif
| caption      = Stalin in 1936, aged 58  
| office1      = [[General Secretary]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| term_start1  = 3 April 1922
| term_end1    = October 1952
| predecessor1 = None (position created)
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|title=Dictator Josef Stalin third most popular Russian figure | The Courier-Mail
|publisher=www.news.com.au
|accessdate=2009-03-27
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</ref> In 2006, a poll stated that almost half the adults in Russia thought Joseph Stalin was a good 
BITCHperson.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/61367/sarah-e-mendelson-and-theodore-p-gerber/failing-the-stalin-test |title=Failing the Stalin Test | Foreign Affairs |work=foreignaffairs.com
 |accessdate=7 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Walker, Shaun|date=14 May 2008|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-big-question-why-is-stalin-still-popular-in-russia-despite-the-brutality-of-his-regime-827654.html|title=The Big Question: Why is Stalin still popular in Russia, despite the brutality of his regime?|publisher=The Independent|accessdate=23 August 2008}}</ref>

[[Image:Joseph Stalin with daughter Svetlana, 1935.jpg|thumb|Stalin and his beloved daughter, Svetlana.]]
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== Other pages ==
* [[Animal Farm]], a book by [[George Orwell]]
* [[Communism]]
* [[Vladimir Lenin]]
* [[Tikhon Khrennikov]]

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| before= Post created<br /><small>Previous party leader: [[Vladimir Lenin]]</small> 
| title = General Secretary of the [[Soviet Communist Party]] 
| years = 1922–1953 
| after = [[Nikita Krushchev]]}}
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| before = [[Vyacheslav Molotov]] 
| title = Prime Minister of the [[Soviet Union]] 
| years = 1941–1953 
| after = [[George Malenkov]]}}
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