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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)rch 5, 1953. It was officially said to be because of a [[stroke]].<ref name=bbc/> In 2003, however, a group of Russian and American historians said that they believed Stalin had been poisoned with [[warfarin]], possibly by the men who took over the government after Stalin died.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.pravda.ru/history/29-12-2005/9457-stalin-0/|title=Secret documents reveal Stalin was poisoned|date=29 December 2005|work=PRAVDA.Ru}}</ref> Led by [[Lavrentiy Beria]], these were [[
Nikita KhrushcheVyacheslav Molotov]] and [[Georgy Malenkov]]. The three of them[[Nikita Krushchev]] later began a process called "De-Stalinization", which meant taking apart much of the political system that Stalin made. Stalin was denounced as a tyrant, however, a. After outsmarting and defeating his rivals, Krushchev established a personal control over the government comparable to Stalin's own, even if he never went as far in murdering millions of people. 

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[[Category:Time People of the Year]]
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[[Category:1878 births]]
[[Category:1953 deaths]]

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