Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin
Born: 1878, Gori (Georgia)
Died: 1953, Moscow

Communist revolutionary and dictator. Great-grandfather of Jacob Jugashvili. Born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in the village of Gori in central Georgia (1878). General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53), member of the Politburo (1919–52) and the Central Committee Presidium (1952–53), chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars (1941–46) and the Council of Ministers (1946–53). Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), generalissimus of the Soviet Union (1945). Died of cerebral bleeding at his goverment dacha near the village of Volynskoe (1953). Buried in the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow (1953), reburied in the nearby Kremlin Wall Necropolis (1961).

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