Joseph Stalin

### Born

18th December 1878Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire

### Death

28th December 1943 (Aged 65)Death by Execution

### Political Allignment

Communist

**Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin** (18th December 1878 - 28th December 1943) was a Georgian Soviet Politician and the Last Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1943. He was executed on the 28th of December 1943, during The Battle for Moscow in The Invasion of The Soviet Union.

## History

Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin came to power. Stalin suppressed all political opposition to his rule inside the Communist Party and inaugurated a command economy. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization and forced collectivization, which led to significant economic growth, but also led to a man-made famine in 1932–1933 and expanded the Gulag labour camp system originally established in 1918. Stalin also fomented political paranoia and conducted the Great Purge to remove his actual and perceived opponents from the Party through mass arrests of military leaders, Communist Party members, and ordinary citizens alike, who were then sent to correctional labour camps or sentenced to death.

Due to Heavy Purges on the Red Army, many of the best officers in the Red Army were either executed or Imprisoned which would have catastrophic effects on their ability to fight.

In the War of Liberation, referred to as the War of Waiting in the USSR, Stalin decided to sit on the side-lines. But The USSR did invade and occupy Eastern Poland due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by Germany and The USSR. The formally neutral Soviets invaded and annexed territories of several Eastern European states, including eastern Poland and the Baltic states. Stalin was a great fan of Good Relations with The German Reich and after The Imperiumist Victory in the War, he continued this thought.

However, Stalin dug his head in the sand when his Top Generals told him the Imperians were beginning preparations to invade and instead planned for a Union Invasion. As such, he heavily fortified The Eastern Border with Elite Cold-Weather Soldiers and Forts. He had around 5 Million Soldiers on the East and 2 Million in the West. This was a poor decision however. On the 3rd of April 1943, 5 Million Imperial Soldiers crossed into Soviet Occupied Poland and Ukraine. The Soviet Soldiers on the West were completely taken by surprise. On the First Day of the War, 10,000 Soviet Soldiers would be Killed and a Further 5,000 Captured. Around Midday, Joseph Stalin would be informed about the Invasion by Superior Officers and Stalin retired to his room for 3 Days.

Stalin would take command of Armies and ordered Conscriptions and conscripted nearly 20 Million during the course of the War. On the 5th of November 1943, Imperial Soldiers reached the Moscow Defensive Fortifications, by the 20th of December, the first Imperial Soldiers crossed the Moskva River and the 3rd Imperial Storm Division marched on the Kremlin where a defiant Stalin refused to surrender.

Finally on the 28th of December, the Imperial 3rd Storm Division broke the Soviet NKVD Division manning the defence of the Kremlin. After a bloody close quarters battle, The 3ISD managed to push into the upper floors of the Kremlin and reached Stalin's Office. There they stormed and killed his bodyguards and took Stalin to the rooftop of the Kremlin. The Imperial Soldiers lowered the Soviet Flag ,raised the Flag of The Imperium and shot Stalin under The Emperor's personal orders.

## Legacy

Several hours after Stalin's death, Soviet Soldiers in Moscow began surrendering and The Imperial 5th Storm Division and accompanying Guardsmen captured the Red Army HQ and executed the 2 Generals and One Admiral Present. The Soviet State began to crumble as Field Marshal Zhukov ordered an Evacuation from the now doomed Moscow and Andrey Vlasov rushed to the Urals to form the Provisional Government.

Vlasov and The Russian Non-Alligned Front saw the War as over and unnecessary and if they surrendered now they would keep a degree of sovereignty. Zhukov and The Remainder of the All-Union Communist Party wanted to fight until every inch of The USSR was under Imperian or UEAS Occupation and until every man, woman and child had died fighting the invaders. They told stories of how Stalin died defending the Motherland and all true Soviets should do the same Eventually Vlasov won and the War was ended and Stalin's view of a true Soviet Union faded into Andrey Vlasov's Authoritarian Dictatorship and Zhukov's Communist Resistance.

The 3rd ISD has a Silhouette of Stalin's face on their Emblem and has gained the nickname 'Stalin's Executioners'. In the Imperium, Stalin is seen as a Tyrant of the Russian people who the brave Imperial Army fought to liberate