Stalin
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Stalin
A surname from Russian; usually referring to the Russian [empire, republic] revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Joseph Stalin.
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A 1941 Stalin directive ordered the suicide of every Red Army officer and soldier rather than surrender; Soviet law regarded all captured Red Army soldiers as traitors.
60% of respondents did not want to live under a head of state who resembled Stalin.
According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak had regarded Stalin as a, "giant of the pre-Christian era."
Acting on the principle that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Churchill rallied to the aid of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, dispatching convoys of tanks, trucks, planes, and other essential equipment that Britain could ill afford to spare.
After a movie had ended, Stalin often invited the audience for dinner, even though the clock was usually past midnight.
After a week-long tension, senior Congress leaders, including Alagiri, paid a visit to Stalin in Chennai Saturday and issued statements that their differences have been resolved, assuring that the alliance is more important.