When Lenin was crippled by a series of strokes in 1922, Stalin kept him housebound and at arm’s length from other party leaders. With Lenin isolated, Stalin was able to further increase his own power. After Lenin’s death in January 1924, Stalin isolated his main rivals for the Soviet ...
The son of Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler, and Ketevan Geladze, a washerwoman, Stalin was a frail child. At age 7, he contracted smallpox, leaving his face scarred. A few years later he was injured in a carriage accident which left arm slightly deformed (some accounts state his arm...
Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of death and terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.
He suffered from small pox at a young age and his face was left permanently marked, resulting in nicknames like ‘pocky’ and ‘pock-marked-joe’. He was born with his second and third toe conjoined and due to blood poisoning; his right arm was made shortened and stiff. Stalin was ...
Joseph Stalin - Soviet leader. Stalin led the Soviet Union for about 25 years. He made it into a world power, but he was known for his harsh rule. He
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950 with the approval of Joseph Stalin and the promise of backing from China. Cold War Area 51’s Most Outrageous Top Secret Spy Plane Projects Their designs were so radical that test flights over the Nevada desert often prompted a rash of 'UFO'...
I still think that something is more likely to be achieved in the East since Stalin seems to me more realistic than the trigger-happy Anglo-American (Roosevelt). (19) Joseph Goebbels, diary (13th March, 1945) This evening's Mosquito raid was particularly disastrous for me because our ...
Joseph Stalin, the controversial Soviet leader, wielded absolute power and implemented policies that transformed the USSR into a global superpower while leaving behind a legacy of repression and millions of lives lost.