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{{About|the Georgian politician and Soviet leader|the Indian politician|M. K. Stalin}}⏎
{{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
| term_end     = 16 October 1952
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| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1953|3|5|1878|12|18|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Kuntsevo Dacha]], [[Kuntsevo]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| resting_place = [[Kremlin Wall Necropolis]], Moscow (from 31 October 1961)
| party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| nationality = [[Georgians|Georgian]]
| spouse = [[Ekaterina Svanidze]] (1906–1907)<br />[[Nadezhda Alliluyeva]] (1919–1932)}}

'''Joseph 
Vissarionovich  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 Union]] from 1922 until his death in 1953 from a cerebral haemorrhage.  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]]. He was the leader of the [[USSR]] or [[CCCP]] he was involved in the [[Spanish Civil War|Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)]] to turn [[Second Spanish Republic|Spain]] in [[Europe]] [[Communist]] but failed . He was in the [[Battle of Khalkhin Gol|Battle of Khalkhin Gol (1939)]] in [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]] in [[Asia]] as well [[Soviet invasion of Poland|The Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)]] the start of [[World War 2]] in [[Europe]] as well the [[Winter War|Winter War (1939-1945)]] as well as [[Operation Barbarossa|Operation Barbarossa (1941)]],the,[[Battle of Stalingrad|Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)]] as well as [[Battle of Berlin|Battle of Berlin (1945)]] the end of [[World War 2]] in [[Europe]] against [[Nazi Germany]] led by [[Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Nazi Party]] . He was also involved in the [[Russo-Japanese War|Soviet-Japanese War (1945)]] in [[Asia|North East Asia]] against the [[Japanese Empire]] as well the [[First Indochina War|First Indochina War (1946-1954)]] in [[Southeast Asia]] as well the [[Chinese Civil War|Second Chinese Civil War (1945-1949)]],[[Korean War|Korean War (1950-1953)]] in [[Asia|North East Asia]] helping the [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese Communists]] led by [[Mao Zedong]] against the [[Kuomintang|Chinese Nationalist Party]] led by [[Chiang Kai-shek]] in the [[Chinese Civil War|Civil War in China (1945-1949)]] as well helping [[Kim Il-Sung]] the leader of [[North Korea]] in the [[Korean War|Korean War (1950-1953)]] against [[South Korea]] led by [[Syngman Rhee]] until 1953 when Stalin died .

Stalin [[Invasion of Poland|invaded Poland]] on 18 September 1939. In the subsequent [[World War II]], Stalin stayed neutral but signed a peace deal with [[Germany]]'s leader [[Adolf Hitler]].  He then led a bloody war after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. And after the end of the war Stalin 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 d(contracted; show full)[[Category:Politicians from Georgia (country)]]
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