Joseph Stalin

"Communist, Communist, Communist, Communist, Communist, Communist. If that's not free and fair, I don't know what is!"

- Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili, was the ruler of the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953.

Biography
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was born on December 18, 1878, in Gori, Georgia. At a young age, his family was in crippling debt, not able to afford that much. As a result, his father got drunk and beat Stalin and his mother.

Eventually, Stalin's mother divorced Stalin's father. She moved with Stalin into the house of a family friend, Father Christopher Charkviani, in 1886. Stalin attended the Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary before joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Stalin excelled in painting and drama classes, writing his poetry, and singing as a choirboy.

Stalin met Vladimir Lenin in Finland and helped fund Lenin's Bolshevik faction by committing multiple crimes; eventually, all of his wanky antics got him exiled to Siberia. After the Russian Civil War, Stalin became secretary in the Soviet Union and took advantage of his position by giving out jobs to his supporters and giving him their support in return. Lenin wasn't that happy about him taking advantage of his position and insulting his wife. Lenin's last wish was not to let Stalin take over, but by the time he died, Stalin was too powerful to be removed by this time.

When Lenin died, Stalin arrested and/or killed his political opponents, and when they were all no more, he became dictator of the USSR. Stalin industrialized the Soviet Union in his Five-Year plans. He formed a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). Hitler betrayed Stalin when he invaded the Soviet Union in 1941; this operation was Operation Barbarossa. Due to several setbacks and rapid industrialization, Stalin pushed the Nazis back to Berlin. When WW2 ended, Stalin got control of Eastern Europe, creating the Warsaw Pact. After discovering that the US had atomic bombs, he made and tested his own, causing a colder conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States after the war. He failed to kick the West out of Berlin; however, Stalin allowed supply lines to go into East Berlin when the Berlin Airlift (1948–1949) occurred. Stalin died on March 5, 1953, after an untreated cerebral hemorrhage. He died because he imprisoned his best doctors, and the remaining ones were too scared to help him.

Appearances

 * WW2 (both parts)
 * The Cold War (both parts) [not named in Part 2, does not speak in Part 2]
 * The Russian Revolution (both parts)

Trivia

 * Both Adolf Hitler and Stalin were punished by their fathers (Stalin was also punished by his mother, and Napoleon was also punished by his mother) when young, which might have lead to their rough behavior as teenagers.
 * Joseph Stalin was the second leader of the Soviet union.
 * He was dressed as a mother in two scenes in Cold War Part 1, obviously for comedy purposes.
 * Joseph Stalin was one of the only Soviet leaders not born in Russia. Others include Leonid Brezhnev (present-day Ukraine) and Konstantin Chernenko (Serbia). Stalin was, however born, in Georgia, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time.
 * Today, Joseph Stalin remains one of the most controversial people in history.