Joseph Stalin

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili better known as Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and politician who was the second leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953, replacing Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union, turning it into a modernized state.
==Biography==
===Pre-World War II===
Stalin was born in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, in a very abusive family; at first wanting to become a priest, he then grew interested in the works of Karl Marx, and became a subscriber to his ideology, becoming a thug for a revolutionary group. In Finland he met Vladimir Lenin, and later on, after the Soviet Union was formed, he became the General Secretary. After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin became the head of state.
Under Stalin's new rule, many people died; because of his collectivization efforts, especially in Ukraine, where the famine became known as the Holodomor, and in the Kazakhstan where a collectivization-caused famine caused over one million residents and 80 percent of the republic's livestock to die. Stalin imprisoned over a million and executed over 700,000 people before the Second World War, including many of his generals; he was a paranoid man - anyone who displeased him was imprisoned or killed.
===World War II and Cold War===
During the Second World War, he at first sided with Nazi Germany, conquering Poland together; however, Germany's chancellor, Adolf Hitler was a stark enemy of communism and demanded more lebensraum for the growing Reich; thus he desired to conquer the Soviet Union; the efforts to conquer it have failed, and in 1945, the Soviet Union, alongside the United States and other Allied Nations bested Germany.
thumb|250px|Stalin and China's communist leader, Mao Zedong on a propaganda posterAfter the Second World War, as the Cold War was beginning, Stalin found himself a protege in the form of a young member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Aleksander Vitalevich Rukov. He became very a close accomplice of the dictator, even closer than the other Soviet officials, perhaps because Stalin saw him as a perfect young copy of himself, eager to continue his legacy.
In 1953, Stalin revealed to him his secret plan - a device known as the Dome Of Light, a titanic device which upon activation, would release a massive, constantly-expanding dome of energy, which would expand onto the entire globe, and "cauterize" Earth of all life, including all of humanity. Mere days after revealing it to Rukov, Stalin died from a stroke, his guards too afraid to check up on him.
===Legacy===
Stalin's death was mourned by both the Soviet Union, and other communist states, including China. His most dangerous legacy however still existed in Rukov's head, who ordered to start constructing the Dome Of Light in Kamchatka, a device which eventually would be activated during the Third World War.
==Appearances==
*Reds Over World (Mentioned, also in portraits) 
Category:Georgians