ºº Stalin ºº

Born on December 18,1878.

He was the General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party from 1922 unteil he was dead in 1953.

Stalin launched a Command Economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of 1920s with 5 year plans and launching rapid indistrializationand economic collectivization.

During the 1930s he lauched the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused os corruption or treachery; he ectended it to the military and other sectors os Soviet Society.

In 1939, the Soviet Union under Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, followed by a Soviet Invasion of Poland, Finland, the Baltics, Bessaraba and the Northern Bukovina.

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