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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
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| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1953|3|5|1878|12|18|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Kuntsevo Dacha]], [[Kuntsevo]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| resting_place = [[Kremlin Wall Necropolis]], Moscow (from 31 October 1961)
| party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| nationality = [[Georgians|Georgian]]
| spouse = [[Ekaterina Svanidze]] (1906–1907)<br />[[Nadezhda Alliluyeva]] (1919–1932)
}}
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Dany GagnoJoseph Stalin''' (or '''Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin'''; 18 December 1878 &nbsp;– 5 March 1953) was the leader of the [[Soviet Union]] from 1922 until his death. 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 on Earth. It also led to the deaths of millions of people.<ref name=bbc/> His form of govern(contracted; show full)d. On these pieces of land, farmers could keep what they grew. In 1938 these parts of land were 4% of Soviet farmland.<ref name=bunker/> However, they gave 20% of its produce.<ref name=bunker>{{cite book | last = Koontz| first = Terri| authorlink = | coauthors = Mark Sidwell, S.M.Bunker| title = World Studies| publisher = Bob Jones University Press| date = | location = Greenville, South Carolina 29614| pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-59166-431-4}}</ref>

==World War II==
[[File:
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Stalin cooperated with [[Hitler]] before the [[World War II]] and finally in 1939 they both made an agreement to conquer [[Poland]] and divide it between themselves. This is how [[World War II]] broke out.

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[[Category:Time People of the Year]]
[[Category:World War II people]]
[[Category:1878 births]]
[[Category:1953 deaths]]

{{Cold War figures}}
{{Time Persons of the Year 1927–1950}}