Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili
aka Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
aka Joseph Stalin
December 21, 1879 – March 5, 1953
Russian revolutionary, Politician, Dictator
Bolshevik, Murderer, Despot
Perpetrator of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
The first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953.
During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge aka the “Great Terror” which was a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery.
It included the military and other parts of Soviet society.
Those accused were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps or exiled.
In the years following, millions of members of ethnic minorities were also deported.
Even in death Stalin immersed his people in tragedy. At his funeral, tens of thousands of people crowded in the streets to view the body. Many were crushed to death in the ensuing panic.
Stalin’s leadership was at a horrific price paid by his people in human lives. Then there is the incalculable moral, intellectual, psychological, and physical destruction he left behind.
Good riddance to a monster.
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