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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Joseph Stalin
| birthname =
| image = JStalin Secretary general CCCP 1942.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Stalin in 1942
| 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==
Katyn Executions of 22000 Polish Intelligentsia were approved by Stalin & Beria on March 5 1940, Stalin died to the date and hour 13 years later. His NKVD chief Beria poisoned him with rat poison as he was fearing next nationwide purge. There was some justice in the end. All of Beria's predecessors were executed as Stalin blamed them from country's problems. He was buried next to Lenin but on Halloween, October 31 1961, he was moved without any fanfare behind Kremlin Wall.⏎
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==Related pages==
* [[Vladimir Lenin]]
* [[Tikhon Khrennikov]]
* [[Leon Trotsky]]

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| before= Post created<br /><small>Previous party leader: [[Vladimir Lenin]]</small> 
| title = General Secretary of the [[Soviet Communist Party]] 
| years = 1922–1953 
| after = [[Nikita Krushchev]]}}
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| before = [[Vyacheslav Molotov]] 
| title = Prime Minister of the [[Soviet Union]] 
| years = 1941–1953 
| after = [[George Malenkov]]}}
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{{Joseph Stalin}}
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