Who is Joseph Stalin?

 Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union for more than two decades, during which he transferred Russia from a reactionary state to a great power and contributed to the defeat of Nazism, but sacrificed millions of lives to empower his rule.

About Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1879, in the city of Gori, Georgia. He began to rise to power since becoming secretary-general of the Communist Party and became governor of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin .Stalin forced the development of cooperative industry and agriculture by force, resulting in the deaths of millions as a result of the famine and sent others to labor camps in Siberia.His Red Army contributed to the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II.
 

The beginnings of Joseph Stalin

Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born on December 18, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, which was later known as Joseph Stalin. His father, Besarion Jugashvili, was a prisoner. His mother, Ketevan Geladze, was washing clothes. Joseph was a weak child, and at the age of seven he contracted smallpox, leaving scars on his face.Several years later, he was injured in a compound accident that caused a slight disfigurement in his arm. In some accounts, this deformity was caused by blood poisoning from the accident. The other village children treated him harshly, instilling a sense of inferiority. For this Joseph sought to achieve glory and to extract the respect of others by force, and he made a harsh impression towards everyone who surpassed him.Joseph's mother wanted her son to become a priest, and was a religious Orthodox Christian. In 1888, she was able to enroll him in a church school in the town of Gori. In 1894, Joseph received a scholarship to join the Theological Institute of Teplice as a result of his superiority.A year later, Joseph continued with the third group, Messame Dassy, ​​which supported Georgia's independence from Russia.Some members of the organization, who were socialists, knew him about the writings of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Joseph joined the organization in 1898.Despite his superiority in theological school, he left it in 1899. The accounts differed as to why he left the school, but the official school records indicate that he was unable to pay the fees. He withdrew, probably expelled from school because of his political views against the Tsar Nicholas II (Nicholas II).Joseph preferred to stay in Teplice and never went home, devoted most of his time to the revolutionary movement. He worked part-time as a teacher and then worked for the Meteorological Observatory in Teplice. In 1901, he joined the Socialist Workers' Democratic Party and became completely devoted to the revolutionary movement. In 1902, he was arrested and exiled to Siberia to organize a labor strike, the first arrest followed by many arrests in the years following the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. During that period, Joseph called himself Stalin, which means steel in Russian.Although he was not a preacher like Vladimir Lenin or an educator like Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin excelled in other revolutionary activities, such as meetings, publications, strikes and demonstrations. After his escape from exile, the secret police of the Ochranka declared that he was out of the law. Joseph continued his activities in secret and raised money through theft, kidnapping and extortion.Stalin brought himself to shame when he participated in the robbery of Teflis Bank, in 1907, resulting in many deaths and the theft of 250,000 rubles (approximately US $ 3.4 million).In February 1917, the Russian Revolution broke out. By March, the Tsar had abdicated and was set up at his home. The rebels have supported the transitional government for some time, believing that power can be smoothly transferred. In April 1917, the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin condemned the transitional government, arguing that the people had to rise and take power by confiscating land and factories from the rich and the industrialists. By October, the revolution was complete and the Bolsheviks were in control.

The achievements of Joseph Stalin

The nascent Soviet government suffered from difficult times after the revolution, with many figures competing for power and governance. In 1922, Joseph Stalin was appointed to the post of Secretary-General of the Communist Party, which had been newly created.Although not an important position at the time, he gave Stalin the ability to control the movement of appointments of all members of the party, allowing him to establish bases within the party. Stalin chose the new members wisely, strengthened them, so that most members of the Central Command were condemning him for their posts.Others did not realize what he had done until it was too late. Even Lenin, who was so sick at the time, was unable to regain control of Stalin.After the death of Lenin in 1924, Stalin began to eliminate the old leadership of the party and take full control of it. At first, some leaders were removed from office through defamation and bureaucratic methods.Some were deported to Europe and the Americas, including Leon Trotsky, the supposed successor of Lenin. Stalin was further paranoid and began to consolidate his rule of terrorism and repression, by arresting dissidents at night and prosecuting mock mock trials.Potential opponents were accused of complicity with capitalist states and were condemned as enemies of the people and then executed without trial. As time went by, the purge campaigns were extended to local officials suspected of anti-revolutionary activities, and not only to the elite of the Party leadership.In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Joseph Stalin seized agricultural land from peasants and replaced the Bolshevik farming system with cooperative farming.Which brought the peasants back to slavery, as they did during the monarchy. Stalin believed that cooperative agriculture would speed up the pace of food production, but farmers were dismayed by losing their land and working for the state. Millions were killed as a result of forced labor or hunger during the famine that swept the country later.Stalin began to increase the pace of industry as well, which was a huge success at first, but over time caused the deaths of millions and caused severe damage to the environment. Any attempt at resistance was met with sudden and deadly responses; many people were deported to or executed in the Gulaj (Siberia) labor camps.When the clouds of war rose over Europe in 1939, Stalin signed a non-violence pact with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Stalin documented Hitler's integrity and ignored the warnings of his army commanders about German army movements on the eastern border of the country.When the Nazi war broke out in June 1941, the Soviet army was not ready at all and suffered heavy losses immediately. Stalin was horrified by Hitler's betrayal of him, so he hid in his office for several days. When Stalin regained his senses, the German armies occupied both Ukraine and Belarus, and artillery surrounded the city of Leningrad.To make things worse, the political cleansing campaigns of the 1930s drained the strength of the Soviet army and state leaders to the extent that they were almost paralyzed. In 1943, German troops withdrew to Stalingrad, following heroic efforts by the Soviet army and the Russian people.By the following year, the Soviet army had liberated occupied Eastern Europe, even before the allies had posed a serious challenge to Hitler by invading Normandy.Stalin has been suspicious of the West since the creation of the Soviet Union. Stalin had called on the Allies to open a second front to fight the Germans since the Soviet Union entered the war. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt objected that the measure would lead to heavy losses. Which increased Stalin's suspicions against the West, while millions of Russians were killed.When the war turned slightly in favor of the Allies, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met with Joseph Stalin to discuss post-war arrangements. Stalingrad's recent victories gave Stalinist a strong stand during the negotiations during his first meeting with the Allies in Tehran, the capital of Iran, in late 1943. Stalin called on the Allies to open a second front to fight the Germans, which they approved in the spring of 1944. In February 1945 , The three leaders met again in the Crimean city of Yalta.Stalin took a strong stand again during the negotiations thanks to the liberation of the Soviet forces of Eastern European countries, and demanded freedom to act in the reorganization of the governments of those countries; and he agreed to fight the war against Japan in the event of defeat of Germany.But the situation changed during the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. Roosevelt died in April and was succeeded by President Harry S. Truman. Clement Attlee replaced Churchill as Britain's chief negotiator after winning parliamentary elections under the British government.Meanwhile, the British and Americans were skeptical about Stalin's intentions and wanted to avoid Soviet intervention in Japan after the war. Before the Soviets took any step, Japan was forced to surrender as a result of the atomic bombings in August 1945.Stalin became obsessed with the threat of invasion from the West, convinced of anti-Soviet allies. Between 1945 and 1948, communist regimes were established in many Eastern European countries, creating a vast buffer zone between Western Europe and Mother Russia.Strange forces considered these actions to be evidence of Stalin's desire to put Europe under communist control, and thus established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to counter the Soviet power. In 1948, Stalin ordered an economic blockade of the German city of Berlin in the hope of gaining full control over the city.The Allies launched an enormous airlift to supply the city, forcing Stalin to retreat from the blockade.Stalin suffered another failure in his foreign policy when North Korean communist leader Kim Il Sung urged the invasion of South Korea, believing that the United States would not intervene in the matter. Earlier, Stalin ordered Soviet delegates to the United Nations to boycott the Security Council; for refusing to join the Communist People's Republic of China to the United Nations, which was then an emerging state. When it came time to vote on South Korea's support to the Security Council, the Soviet Union was unable to veto.

The most famous words of Joseph Stalin

Education weapon depends on who holds it in his hands and to whom he directs.

The writer is a human spirit engineer.

The real power comes from the larger gun.

The death of one tragedy, but the death of a million stats.

I do not trust anyone - not even myself.

Education weapon depends on who holds it in his hands and to whom he directs.

The writer is a human spirit engineer.

The real power comes from the larger gun.

The death of one tragedy, but the death of a million stats.

I do not trust anyone - not even myself.

Education weapon depends on who holds it in his hands and to whom he directs.

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Joseph Stalin's personal life

Joseph Stalin married twice, the first time Ekaterina Svanidze, and had a son named Yakov.
The second time was Nadezhda Alliluyeva, who had a son named Vazili and a daughter named Svetlana.

Death of Joseph Stalin

Stalin's health began to deteriorate in the early 1950s, despite the strong popularity he gained as a result of his victories during the Second World War.After discovering a conspiracy to assassinate him, the head of the secret police ordered a new political cleansing campaign within the Communist Party. But Stalin died before the March 5, 1953 campaign. He left behind a legacy of murder and terrorism as he sought to turn Russia from a reactionary state into a world superpower.When Nikita Khrushchev came to power in 1956, he denounced the Stalin regime and made many political reforms against Stalinist corruption. But he rekindled Stalin's popularity among many young Russians.

Quick facts about Joseph Stalin

• Stalin loved films so much that each of his houses contained a cinema.
• Pianist Maria Yudina, is his favorite musical.
• Joseph Stalin was responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people, due to World War II.

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