Joseph Stalin

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One of the most powerful and murderous dictators in human history, Stalin was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions of his subjects, but he was also in charge of the war machine that played a significant role in the defeat of Hitler's armies during World War II.

A Georgian by birth, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili grew up in modest circumstances and only learned Russian at school. He studied at a theological seminary but never graduated, instead embarking on a life as a professional revolutionary. This included robbing banks to fill the Bolshevik party chest and spending years in Siberian exile.

Stalin was not one of the decisive players in the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, but he soon rose in the ranks. In 1922 he was made General Secretary of the Communist Party, a post which was not considered particularly significant at the time but nevertheless became the base from which he launched his bid for supreme power.

After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin promoted himself as his political heir and gradually outmanoeuvred rivals. Unlike Trotsky, Stalin believed that socialism could be introduced in one country without being accompanied by a world revolution. By the late 1920s, Stalin was effectively the dictator of the Soviet Union.

His forced collectivisation of agriculture cost million of lives, while his industrialisation programme made his country militarily strong but provided little material welfare for its citizens. Moreover, the population suffered immensely during the Great Terror of the 1930s, during which Stalin and his henchmen purged the Party of 'enemies of the people' and sent millions to the Gulag system of slave labour camps.

The purges severely depleted the Red Army officer corps, and despite many warnings, Stalin was ill prepared for Hitler's massive attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. His political future hung in the balance, but he recovered to lead his country to victory. As usual with Stalin, the human cost was enormous, but that mattered little to him. His general disregard for human lives included his own family - his eldest son perished in German captivity, his second wife committed suicide, and many in-laws were caught up in the terror.

After World War II, the Soviet Union entered the nuclear age and ruled over an empire which included most of Eastern Europe. Increasingly paranoid, Stalin himself became a victim of the fear he had induced in his subjects. Having suffered a stroke at night, he lay helpless on his floor for many hours, because no one dared disturb him. He died on 5 March 1953.
A large part of the Soviet population reacted to his death with hysterical grief, but soon his former comrades-in-arms denounced his policies of terror and persecution. Today, Stalinism is a symbol of totalitarian rule and limitless personal power. His birth home in Gori forms part of the Stalin Museum, a bizarre and somewhat eerie Soviet monument to one

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Kill Tally -
Approximately 20 million, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political "offences". At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the 'Gulag Archipelago' never returning alive. Other estimates place the number of deported at 28 million, including 18 million sent to the 'Gulag'.

aphrodisiac

stalin ni pada penghujung hayat dia dah macam org gila...org2 yg dekat ngan dia semua dia tak percaya lagi dah..huhu..padan la gorbachev kutuk dia masa gorbachev ambil alih kuasa..tapi mao zedong plak geram bila gorbachev denounce stalin's reign of terror..huhu

midori88

stalin antara org paling kejam didunia..antara dia ngan hitler..aku rasa dia lagi kejam pasal dia bunuh org sendiri..

jerai

stalin jugalah yang telah menghukum penduduk chechen dengan menangkap mereka dan menghantar
mereka ke siberia sebagai buruh kerja keras

aphrodisiac

trivia: org2 di tempat asalnya stalin sendiri tak bertutur dalam bahasa rusia...usaha soviet union utk memaksa mereka bertutur dalam bahasa rusia gagal apabila mereka memberontak..:ting:

midori88

On March 1, 1953, after an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin collapsed, having suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. He died four days later, on March 5, 1953, at the age of 73. Officially, the cause of death was listed as a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was preserved in Lenin's Mausoleum until October 31, 1961, when de-Stalinisation was taking place in the Soviet Union. Stalin's body was then buried by the Kremlin walls.

It has been suggested that Stalin was murdered. The ex-Communist exile Avtorkhanov argued this point as early as 1975. The political memoirs of Vyacheslav Molotov, published in 1993, claimed Beria had boasted to Molotov that he poisoned Stalin. In 2003, a joint group of Russian and American historians announced their view that Stalin ingested warfarin, a powerful rat poison that thins the blood and causes strokes and hemorrhages. Since it is flavorless, warfarin is a plausible murder weapon. But the facts of Stalin's death will probably never be known with certainty, unless an autopsy is performed on his corpse, which is still embalmed.

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When Stalin died, his body was preserved and he was placed in the crypt alongside Lenin. Later during a period of de-Stalinization undertaken by Krushchev, Stalin's body was removed under cover of night and buried in a modest tomb alongside the Kremlin wall. Krushchev ordered thick layers of concrete to be placed over the tomb so that Stalin could never rise again.

midori88

stalin menghabiskan masa 5 jam sehari meneliti Death List..

earthfault

Dia ingat Holland & Netherland different country. Nobody dare to correct him.

deaf4ever

aku suka baca pasal dekni punye brutal...

layan gambo...




dia ngan roosevelt ngan churchill masa WW2

deaf4ever

masa world war II, salah satu yang buat kalah German pasal dorang kalah kat Stalingrad.
Ni kira dalam sejarah perang, Stalingrad ialah paling brutal...
korang gi nengok pilem wayang " Enemy At The Gates "

yang Hitler main giler pasal Stalingrad ni ialah pasal kota ni nama dia ada perkataan Stalin, jadi kalo Hitler dapat kota ni, kira dia dah demoralise Russia teruk.

deaf4ever

ni lak patung Stalin kena roboh..

deaf4ever

1924

Stalin ngah nengok Stalin nye mayat kena pameran

deaf4ever

1953 dia lak join sama...

korang nengok eh, Lenin dah 30 tahun gitu kan mayat dia kena awet buat pameran...
doktor semua kena taruk electrical pump dalam mayat dia, kasi maintain fresh...
siksa mayat siot ni..

deaf4ever

layan gambo lagi
masa muda lak, gambo dalam rekod polis :siok:

Joseph Stalin's Mug Shots The information card on Joseph Stalin, from the files of the Tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg

deaf4ever

layan gambo lagik...
korang nengok gambo ni dua
ni kena edit, pasal yang dektu kat tepi tu kena bunuh stalin. So kena censor la.



Nikolai Yezhov, the young man strolling with Stalin to his left, was shot in 1940. He was edited out from a photo by Soviet censors. Such retouching was a common occurrence during Stalin's reign

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swordman

walaupun jahat,tapi namanya masih diingati samapi sekarang...
hancur badan di kandung tanah,budi jahat dikenang jua...

midori88

Enemy at d Gates erk..mcm pnh dgr..nanti aku carik DVD dia..

thanks for d photos deaf4ever..

Asiafever

BUkan dikenang tapi diingati supaya tidak lupa akan kekejaman diktator seperti ni... Anyway, kalau tanpa mereka, sejarah dunia taklah menarik pula...Mungkin inilah dark side of human yang dapat ditunjukkan....