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  2. Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    Stalin was born on 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 [j] in Gori, Georgia, [2] then part of the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire. [3] [4] An ethnic Georgian, his birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (Russified as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili).

  3. Early life of Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    Besarionis dze means "son of Besarion," and was Russified to Vissarionovich ("son of Vissarion", the Russian version of "Besarion"). There are several etymologies of the jugha (ჯუღა) root. In one version, the name derives from the village of Jugaani in Kakhetia, eastern Georgia. [313] In Georgian, the suffix -shvili means "child" or "son".

  4. Apocalypse: Stalin - Wikipedia

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    Demon: it recounts the beginnings of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili which became Stalin.Born in Gori officially on December 21, 1879 (unofficially December 18, 1878), he was son of a seamstress and fervent Orthodox mother and a shoemaker father who made a good living, but who quickly became an alcoholic.

  5. Joseph Stalin's cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    Stalin, however, reacted entirely negatively to this idea and, for this reason, the city retained the name Moscow. [39] Veneration of Stalin by the Soviet people for his role as the leader of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II helped to stabilize their belief in the Soviet system, a factor of which Stalin was aware ...

  6. Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    However, Stalin's condition continued to deteriorate and he died at 9:50 p.m. on 5 March 1953. His death was announced the next day on Radio Moscow by Yuri Levitan. [7] Stalin's body was then taken to an unspecified location and an autopsy performed, after which it was embalmed for public viewing.

  7. Iosif - Wikipedia

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    Iosif Anisim, Romanian sprint canoer; Iosif Ardeleanu, Romanian communist activist and bureaucrat; Iosif Blaga, Romanian literary theorist and politician; Iosif Bobulescu, Romanian bishop; Iosif Capotă, Romanian anti-communist resistance fighter; Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, aka Joseph Stalin; Iosif Iser, Romanian painter and graphic artist

  8. Russia communist wing asks for probe into West's possible ...

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    "The party appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the FSB with a request to check the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of ...

  9. Joseph Stalin's rise to power - Wikipedia

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    Stalin feuded with Trotsky quietly, to appear as "The Golden Centre Man". Prior to the Revolution, Trotsky frequently snubbed Stalin, mocked his lack of education, and questioned his effectiveness as a revolutionary. [12] Stalin's theory of "Socialism in One Country" was a contrast to Trotsky's "Permanent Revolution". Trotsky's downfall was ...