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{{Infobox officeholder
| name  = Joseph Stalin
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| image = JStalin Secretary general CCCP 1942.jpg
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| 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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Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili was born in a small one room house in Gori, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], on 18 December 1878. His father made and repaired [[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 
youngdumb. This left his face [[scar]]red. Later, [[photograph]]s were often changed to hide the scars.<ref name=pb/> His left arm was also shorter because of an accident. He was educated at the Gori church school. Stalin studied to be a [[priest]] at a [[seminary]] (school for priests) in [[Tbilisi]].<ref>{{Cite web
 |url= https://www.pbs.org/redfiles/bios/all_bio_joseph_stalin.htm
 |title=Biography: Joseph Stalin
 |work=pbs.org
 |accessdate=18 November 2010
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[[Category:Time People of the Year]]
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