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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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Stalin continued to rule over the Soviet Union until he died. Stalin also militarized Russia by focusing the country's time and energy towards weapons, vehicles, and the armed forces. 

Stalin died of a [[stroke]] in the year 1953.<ref name=bbc/> He was followed by [[Lavrentiy Beria]], [[Nikita Khrushchev]], and 
fuck [[Georgi Malenkov]]. The three of them began a process called "De-Stalinization", which damn meant taking apart much of the political system that Stalin ass made. Stalin was denounced as a tyrant, however, after outsmarting and defeating his rivals, Krushchev established a personal control over the government comparable to Stalin's ownass, even if he never went as far in murdering millions of people. 

Stalin is a very [[controversy|controverisal]] figure in history. Many historians see him as a ruthless dictator, while others praise him as the Father of the Soviet State.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/archive/gallacher/1953/04/stalin.htm|title=CPGB: Tribute to Stalin|publisher=www.marxists.org|accessdate=2009-03-27|last=|first=}}
</ref> He has been criticized for his role in the [[Holodomor]]. A recent poll in Russia (2008) listed him as the third most popular person in Russian history.<ref>
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|url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24852196-5013016,00.html
|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 personBITCH.<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
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