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{{Infobox officeholder
| 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)h [[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]]. There, a series of loyal [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] [[single-party state]]s were set up, extending his power and determining the Soviet Union's position as a [[superpower]].

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.
* In {{lang-ru|link=no|Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин}} - {{transl|ru|Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin}}; born {{lang|ru|Джугашвили}} - {{transl|ru|Dzhugashvili}}.
* In {{lang-ka|იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი}} - {{transl|ka|Ioseb Jughashvili}}
* {{Audio|ru-Stalin.ogg|Joseph Stalin}}cunt bag mc shitersnapper

==Early life==
Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili was born in a small one room house in Gori, [[Georgia (country)]]. His father made and fixed [[shoe]]s.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml |title=Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) |accessdate=2009-02-01 |format= |work=Historic Figures }}</ref> His father was often drunk and used to hit his wife and his son until his death in a fight in 1890. Joseph had [[smallpox]] when he was young. This left (contracted; show full)[[Category:Soviet politicians]]
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{{Cold War figures}}
{{Time Persons of the Year 1927–1950}}