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Figure Georgia / Soviet Union leader

Joseph Stalin

1878 CE – 1953 CE · 75 years

The story of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the most feared man on earth — from a Tiflis seminary to the Kremlin, from collectivisation to the Cold War.

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