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Joseph Stalin Dictator
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Josef Stalin was the de facto leader and dictator of the Soviet Union from about 1928 to his death in 1953. Stalin initiated the Great Purge in the 1930’s, a campaign of political repression, persecution and mass slaughter. Confiscations of grain and other food by the Soviet authorities under his orders contributed to a famine between 1932 and 1934 that resulted in millions of deaths in the Soviet Union. It was during Stalin’s rule that the USSR established itself as one of the two superpowers in the world, a position it maintained for nearly four decades. Despite their strikingly similar physical appearances, Josef Stalin and Super Mario are of no relation.t
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