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Joseph Stalin
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| name = Joseph Stalin
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| image = CroppedStalin1943.jpg
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| office       = [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|General secretary]] of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| term_start   = 3 April 1922
(contracted; show full)t also led to the deaths of millions of people.<ref name=bbc/> His form of government was later called [[Stalinism]]. Stalin [[Invasion of Poland|invaded Poland]] on 18 September 1939. In the subsequent [[World War II]], Stalin stayed neutral but signed a deal of peace with [[Germany]]'s leader [[Adolf Hitler]]. He then fought a bloody war after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The end of the war saw Stalin gain control of all [[Eastern Europe]] including [[East Germany|a part of Germany]]. The
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Stalin replaced [[Vladimir Lenin]] as leader of the Soviet Union. 

==Stalin's name==
Stalin was born as '''Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili''', or '''Iosif Dzhugashvili'''. He adopted the name "Stalin" later.
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{{Cold War figures}}
{{Time Persons of the Year 1927–1950}}