Joseph Stalin
Birthday: 1878-12-18
Place of Birth: Gori, Caucasus, Russian Empire [now Georgia]
Biography: Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual leader of the USSR. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1922-1953). Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945). People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (since July 19, 1941), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee. He also held the following positions: From April 3, 1922 to February 10, 1934 - Secretary General, then - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (from 1952 - CPSU), from December 19, 1930, after Vyacheslav Molotov took the post of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instead of Alexey Rykov. In 1912, at the suggestion of V.I. Lenin was included in the Central Committee of the RSDLP. At the same time, Joseph Dzhugashvili finally chose the pseudonym "Stalin" for himself. During the October Revolution, the Second All-Russian Congress was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. In 1922, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), he was elected a member of the Orgburo and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), as well as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) (when Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR). In 1930, after the weakening and death of Lenin, Stalin finally emerged victorious from the internal party struggle, becoming the leader of the state. Stalin was the actual founder of the totalitarian dictatorship in the USSR. In 1928-1929 he was the initiator of the transition from the course of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to the course of industrialization, collectivization and building a planned economy, and intensified the policy of the cultural revolution in the USSR.
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Stalin's Last Plot
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Korea, A Hundred Years of War
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Laboratory Greece
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World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
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War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin
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Reza Shah
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The Untold History Of The United States
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Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
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Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
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Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
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Life Begins Tomorrow
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When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
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Human Remains
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Stalin In Color
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
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The Soviet Union: A New Look
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The Long Breakup
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The Girls
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Stalin: Man of Steel
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A Compassionate Spy
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The Fight For Peace
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The Bloody Hundredth
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A Web of War
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The Russian Revolution
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Imminent Threat
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The Battle of France
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
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T.V. Sphincter
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High Voltage
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The Mistake that Killed Hitler
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Beginning
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CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin
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Iran: The Hundred Year War
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Stalin, the Red Tyrant
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The Oath of the Albanian People Before the Great Stalin
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Island of the Dead
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I Was Stalin's Bodyguard
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Stalin's Wife
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:03 from Gold
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The Hitler–Stalin Pact
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Mission to Moscow
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The Corporation
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I Invite You to My Execution
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Stalin's James Bond
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Stalin's Daughter
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The Chosen
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
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Reagan
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
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Big Data, Big Brother
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
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State Funeral
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A Grin Without a Cat
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Velikoye proshchaniye
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
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USSR (1917-1991)
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Cannibal Island
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The Soviet Story
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Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
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Året var 1953
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The Extraordinary Seaman
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Stalin Dead
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Hitler's Girl
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Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings
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Papanin Squad
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Songs for After a War
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Life of a Shock Force Worker
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Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
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Marshal Zhukov
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The Mausoleum
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Triumph Over Violence
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Moscow, Capital of the USSR
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The Fall of Berlin
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Battle for Warsaw
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Orwell: 2+2=5
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