Claim: Joseph Stalin was involved in a bank robbery.
Evidence: Affiliated with Vladimir Lenin 's Bolshevik faction , he raised funds via underground activities such as the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery.
The robbery was organized by a number of top-level Bolsheviks , including Vladimir Lenin , Joseph Stalin , Maxim Litvinov , Leonid Krasin , and Alexander Bogdanov , and executed by a party of revolutionaries led by Stalin 's early associate Ter-Petrosian -LRB- Kamo -RRB-.