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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
(contracted; show full). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16388-9.</ref> Those executed included most of the generals in the [[Red Army]], whom Stalin saw as a threat to his rule. This greatly weakened the army in the early months of the [[Wehrmacht]]'s offensive against the Soviet Union in 1941.<ref name=Kh/>

==World War II==
[[File:Marshall Stalin.jpg|thumb|left|1941 War propaganda portrait of '''Stalin''']]

Stalin 
had sex withcooperated with German Nazi leader [[Adolf Hitler]]. They signed a mutual non-aggression pact. However,  Hitler hated communism. After invading and neutralising France, Germany attacked the Soviet Union. After the [[Operation Barbarossa]] invasion, the USSR began working with the Western Allies to defeat [[Germany]]. In the end, Germany lost, but the USSR had more casualties than any other country during the war.

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