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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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| party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| nationality = [[Georgians|Georgian]]
| spouse = [[Ekaterina Svanidze]] (1906–1907)<br />[[Nadezhda Alliluyeva]] (1919–1932)}}

'''Joseph Stalin''' (born as '''Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili)''' (18 December 1878 &nbsp;– 5 March 1953) was a [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] politician who became leader of the [[Soviet Union]] from 1922 until his death in 1953 from a cerebral haemorrhage
 caused by warfarin and thallium, powerful rat poisons.  He replaced [[Vladimir Lenin]] as leader of the Soviet Union. His ideas and [[wikt:policy|policies]] turned the Soviet Union into a powerful, relatively modern country, as the largest on Earth. His way of thinking was called [[Marxism-Leninism]], and his form of government was later called [[Stalinism]].

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[[Category:Joseph Stalin]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin]]
[[Category:Heads of government of the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Smallpox survivors]]
[[Category:Soviet people of World War II]]
[[Category:Time People of the Year]]
[[Category:World War II political leaders]]