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Stalin
[ stah-lin, -leen, stal-in; Russian stah-lyin ]
Stalin
2/ ˈɑːɪ /
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- StalinJoseph18791953MRussianPOLITICS: leader Joseph . original name Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili . 1879–1953, Soviet leader; general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53). He succeeded Lenin as head of the party and created a totalitarian state, crushing all opposition, esp in the great purges of 1934–37. He instigated rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture and established the Soviet Union as a world power
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They are the Soviet nostalgics, longing to be ruled by Stalin’s iron hand.
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Although the city’s 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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“It’s bald, naked imperialism, and it’s on the order of Stalin.”
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Kabalevsky succumbed to Stalin’s decrees against formalistic art, and he has never been taken seriously in the West.
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To put it in Cohen’s terms, exactly how much Stalin and St. Paul we wanted, or were willing to tolerate.
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