Joseph+Stalin

//**__﻿Joseph Stalin__:**// Taylor Ward.


 * Lived from: 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953.**

Joseph Stalin, was born in Gori, Georgia on 21st December, 1879. He was his mother's fourth child to be born in less than four years. The first three died and as Joseph was prone to bad health, his mother feared on several occasions that he would also die. Understandably, given this background, Joseph's mother was very protective towards him as a child. Joseph's father was a bootmaker and his mother took in washing. As a child, Joseph experienced the poverty that most peasants had to endure in Russia at the end of the 19th century. Stalin lived a very hard unemployed, wrong doing life, he was a major bank robber, and others think he was also an assassin at a time.

In 1939, Stalin made the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany which divided Eastern Europe between the two powers. In 1941, Hitler broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union. Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Red Army put up resistance, but were not affective against the Nazi forces. From the end of 1944, large sections of eastern Germany came under Stalin's Soviet Union occupation and May 2, 1945, the capital city Berlin was taken. By some estimates, one quarter of the Russian population was wiped out in war. There was also a huge shortage of men of the fighting-age generation in Russia. As a result, to this day, WWII is remembered very vividly in Russia, and May 9, Victory Day, is one of the biggest national holidays.

Following World War II, Stalin continued his genocidal policies while exerting ruthless control over the Soviet Union and its satellite states until his death in 1953. More than 15 million Germans were removed from eastern Germany and pushed into central Germany and western Germany.

Shortly before he died on March 5, 1953, Stalin accused nine doctors, six of them Jews, of plotting to poison and kill the Soviet leadership. The innocent men were arrested and, at Stalin's personal instruction, tortured to obtain confessions. Stalin died days before their trial was to begin.

Stalin has a city that is named after him Stalingrad, no longer named Stalingrad now, Stalingrad has been called Petrograd, Leningrad, and now it is back to Petrograd. Petrograd population today is, 2.3 million, dropping from 2 million in 1945, to around 700 thousand after the war, and what Stalin and Hitler did to the Jews Etc.

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