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Stalin
[ stah-lin, -leen, stal-in; Russian stah-lyin ]
Stalin
2/ ˈɑːɪ /
noun
- 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
Example Sentences
In the 1930s, his successor, Joseph Stalin, cited the “inefficiency” of individual farming as justification for the collectivization of millions of peasants into state farms, creating a “terror-famine” 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’s iron hand.
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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