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Also Known As Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin • Ioseb Dzhugashvili
Born December 18, 1878 • December 6, 1878 • Gori • Georgia
Died March 5, 1953 (aged 74) • Moscow • Russia
Title / Office prime minister (1941-1953), Soviet Union
Political Affiliation Bolshevik • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party
Notable Family Members daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva
Role In Doctors’ Plot • German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact • Great Purge • Famine of 1932 • Iron Curtain • Korean War • Operation Barbarossa • Russian Revolution • Russo-Finnish War • World War II • Yalta Conference • Pacific War

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