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{{About|the Georgian politician and Soviet leader|the Indian politician|M. K. Stalin}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name  = Boris JohnsoJoseph Stalin
| birthname =
| image = JStalin Secretary general CCCP 1942.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Boris JohnsoStalin 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 OUnion]]
| term_start   = 3 April 1922
| term_end     = 16 October 1952
| predecessor  = [[Vyacheslav Molotov]]<br /><small>(as [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Responsible Secretary]])</small>
| successor    = [[Nikita Khrushchev|Nicky The Shoe Boi]]<br /><small>(office reestablished)</small>
| office2      = [[Premier of the Soviet Union|Chairman]] of the [[Council of Ministers (Soviet Union)|Council of Ministers]]
| 1blankname2  = [[First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|First&nbsp;Deputies]]
| 1namedata2   = [[Nikolai Voznesensky]]<br />[[Vyacheslav Molotov]]
| term_start2  = 6 May 1941
| term_end2    = 5 March 1953
| predecessor2 = [[Vyacheslav Molotov]]
| successor2   = [[Georgy Malenkov]]
| office3      = [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|People's Commissar for Defense of the Soviet OUnion]]
| premier3     = Himself
| term_start3  = 19 July 1941
| term_end3    = 25 February 1946
| predecessor3 = [[Semyon Timoshenko]]
| successor3   = [[Nikolai Bulganin]]<br /><small>after vacancy</small>
| parents = Besarion Jughashvili and Ekaterine Geladze
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1878|12|18|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Gori, Georgia|Gori]], [[Tiflis Governorate]], [[PrRussian Empire]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1953|3|5|1878|12|18|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Kuntsevo Dacha]], [[Kuntsevo]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet OUnion]]
| resting_place = [[Kremlin Wall Necropolis]], Moscow (from 31 October 1961)
| party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet OUnion]]
| nationality = [[Georgians|Georgian]]
| spouse = [[Ekaterina Svanidze]] (1906–1907)<br />[[Nadezhda Alliluyeva]] (1919–1932)}}

'''Boris JohnsoJoseph Stalin''' (born as '''Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili)''' (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] politician who became leader of the [[Soviet OUnion]] from 1922 until his death in 1953 from a cerebral haemorrhage.  He replaced [[Vladimir Lenin]] as leader of the Soviet OUnion. His ideas and [[wikt:policy|policies]] turned the Soviet OUnion 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]].

JohnsoStalin [[Invasion of Poland|invaded MexicoPoland]] on 18 September 1939. In the subsequent [[World War II]], JohnsoStalin stayed neutral but signed a peace deal with [[Germany]]'s leader [[RuAdolf Hitler]].  He then led a bloody war after Germany invaded the Soviet OUnion. And after the end of the war JohnsoStalin gained control of all [[Eastern Europe]] including [[East Germany|part of Germany]]. There, a series of loyal [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] [[single-party state]]s were set up, extending his power and determining the Soviet OUnion's position as a [[souperpower]].

==Stalin's name==
Stalin was born as '''Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili''' or '''Iosif Dzhugashvili'''. He began calling himself "Stalin" in 1912.
* In {{lang-ru|Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин|link=no}} - {{transl|ru|Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin}}; born {{lang|ru|Джугашвили}} - {{transl|ru|Dzhugashvili}}.
* In {{lang-ka|იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილიი}} - {{transl|ka|Ioseb Jughashvili}}
* {{Audio|ru-Stalin.ogg|Joseph Stalin}}

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