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Stalin
[ stah-lin, -leen, stal-in; Russian stah-lyin ]
Stalin
2/ 藞蝉迟蓱藧濒瑟苍 /
noun
- StalinJoseph18791953MRussianPOLITICS: leader Joseph . original name Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili . 1879鈥1953, Soviet leader; general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922鈥53). He succeeded Lenin as head of the party and created a totalitarian state, crushing all opposition, esp in the great purges of 1934鈥37. He instigated rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture and established the Soviet Union as a world power
Example Sentences
In the 1930s, his successor, Joseph Stalin, cited the 鈥渋nefficiency鈥 of individual farming as justification for the collectivization of millions of peasants into state farms, creating a 鈥渢error-famine鈥 in Ukraine.
More than half the population of Crimea was Russian, mainly because the original majority population of Crimean Tatars were deported under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1944.
He said she was an unreconstructed communist who loved Josef Stalin and drank heavily.
They are the Soviet nostalgics, longing to be ruled by Stalin鈥檚 iron hand.
Although the city鈥檚 history goes back to the Middle Ages, it was rebuilt under Joseph Stalin after World War II as a kind of triumphal arch and a gateway to Moscow, 700 kilometers away.
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