Stalin
Joseph Stalin was born on December 21, 1879, and grew up in poverty at a cheap family home. (2) He was the only child to grow to maturity. (1) The other three children were said to die at childbirth. (1) Joseph was born to Catherine and Vissarion Djugashvili. (2) Joseph's father was a drunk, and would beat his son and wife unmercifully. (1) His father was a cobbler by trade, and wanted his son to pick up the profession. (2) His mother was withdrawn, deeply religious, proud, kept her suffering to herself, and all she wanted for Joseph, was for him to become a priest. (2) Joseph's father died when he was eleven years of age. (2) It is said that Stalin was the man that turned the Soviet Union from nothing, into a world superpower but with an unimaginable number of human lives lost. (3) Due to his childhood, Joseph was permanently scared. (3) Due to his small pox, his slightly deformed arm, and the abuse from his father, he always felt unfairly treated by life, thereby developing a strong, fantasized desire for greatness and respect.
(3) Stalin never completed his studies, instead he was drawn more and more to the city's revolutionary circles. (3)A new purge was imminent when a plot to kill Stalin was uncovered, but was cut short with his death. (3)During the large conferences such as Teheran and Yalta, Stalin proved to be a good negotiator, both managing to keep Eastern Europe part of the Soviet Sphere of Influence, and securing three seats for his country in the UN. (3) He controlled all staff, agendas, and appointments, and ended up being responsible for the jobs of everyone around him. (3)When war was brewing in 1939, Stalin felt very good about making a non-aggression pact with Hitler. (3) Lenin valued Stalin's loyalty, and appointed him to various low priority positions in the new government. (3) In the end, he achieved his goal but with a huge cost in human lives. (3) Stalin refused to listen to his advisors in 1941, who told him that Wehrmacht was preparing for an attack. Stalin was more involved in the revolutionary activities, risking arrest every day, while Lenin lived safely abroad, writing about the plight of the Russian working class. (3) Joseph particularly distrusted educated intellectuals, due to feeling inferior around them. (3) When he found this, he started killing them. (2) Thousands of people came to Stalin's funeral, and it is said about 500 people died, trying to get a glimpse of his corpse. (3) Stalin died on March 5, 1953, of natural causes. Stalin Knew, 'if you control the personnel, you control the organization', and he used that knowledge to his advantage.
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