Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili or better known as Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878-5 March 1953) was a Georgian-Russian Soviet Revolutionary and was the Dictator of the Soviet Union from Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924 to his own death in 1953 . Stalin was responsible for the Soviet Famines in Russia,Ukraine and Central Asia from 1929-1947 including the The Great Purge between 1936 and 1938 . He also invaded Poland in World War 2 after he made a deal with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1939 . Between 1939 and 1940 Stalin invaded Poland including the Baltic States but failed to invade Finland between 1939 and 1940 . In 1941 he made an alliance with the UK and the US against Nazi Germany,Italy and Japan’s Axis Powers alliance. Between 1941 and 1944 Stalin defeated the German Armies and captured Berlin in 1945 . Stalin also invaded Manchuria,China and Korea against Japan in 1945 to get revenge for Russia’s failed Russo-Japanese War of 1905 before World War 1 and World War 2 . Stalin would later become enemies with the UK and the US to develop Nuclear weapons and spread Communism from 1947 until his death in 1953 before World War 3 could begin. Joseph Stalin was born on 18 December in 1878 in Gori,Russia (now Georgia) to a poor Georgian-Russian Family. In 1898 he joined the Bolshevik Party and worked for Vladimir Lenin until 1924 . During the Russian Civil War from 1917-1922 Stalin worked as a newspaper reporter for Pravda . Stalin also served as a Military Officer in the Red Army from 1918-1921 during the Russian Civil War but was blamed by Vladimir Lenin after the failed invasion of Poland in 1918/1921 during the Civil War. In 1922 he became the General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party and made sure that he had a strong powerful position. Lenin died in 1924 everyone presumed that Leon Trotsky would become the next Dictator but Stalin exiled Trotsky until he murdered Trotsky in 1940 . From the 1920’s to the 1930’s and 40’s Stalin industrialised the Soviet Union which caused 20 million of people’s deaths in Russia,Ukraine and Central Asia between 1929 and 1933 . In 1929 Stalin ordered the Red Army in Siberia to invade Manchuria,China to crush the White Army movement. Between 1932 and 1939 the Red Army had a border skirmish with the Japanese before and during the Second Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan (1937-1945) . In 1936 Stalin supported the Spanish Republican Communists during the Spanish Civil War until 1939 . Between 1936 and 1938 Stalin executed his Marshals,General’s and Admirals (in the Soviet Military’s Red Army and Red Navy) including normal innocent civilians who were also murdered. During World War 2 between 1939 and 1941 Stalin was friends with Adolf Hitler until 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union . Stalin ordered the Red Army not to retreat from fighting the Nazis between 1941 and 1945 . In 1945 Germany surrendered after Hitler’s suicide Stalin agreed with the UK and US to split Germany in 2 and turned Eastern Europe and East Germany into Communist Puppet States . In 1945 the same year Stalin invaded Japan’s puppet state of Manchukuo including North Korea . He also helped to turn East Asia into Communist China and North Korea in 1948 and 1949 . Stalin later made a Nuclear bomb test in Central Asia in 1949 during the Cold War with the UK and US after the formation of NATO in America. In 1950 Stalin allowed North Korea to start the Korean War against South Korea which nearly started World War 3 during the Cold War but Stalin died in 1953 (aged 74) . After Stalin’s death in 1953 a lot of Russians were crying in fear of there leader is dead . Joseph Stalin is considered the most evil Communist Dictator ever known in History and was outlived by Enver Hoxha,Josip Broz Tito,Mao Zedong,Kim Il-Sung,Fidel Castro,Walter Ulbricht,Ho Chi Minh .
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