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Joseph Stalin was one of the most notorious communist leader of the Soviet Union. Born [|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili] on Decemeber 18, 1879 in Gori, Georgia he was raised in very modest circumstances.He studied at a theological seminary where he began to read Marxist literature. Later he became interested in the Russian monarchy and became a big activist.



Stalin spent his first years after the revolution building his post as general secretary secretly into the most powerful one in the communist party. In 1939, Stalin made the [|Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact] with Nazi Germany which divided Eastern Europe between the two powers. The official Allied' version has been: In 1941, however, Hitler broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union. Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Red Army put up fierce resistance, but were ineffective against the advancing Nazi forces.

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