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Joseph Stalin

Soviet Unionb. 18 December 1878 · d. 5 March 1953Add to favourites

Dictator of the Soviet Union. Signed the pact with Germany in 1939 and annexed eastern Poland, the Baltic states and Bessarabia; after the German attack became Supreme Commander and chairman of the State Defence Committee. Negotiated the post-war order at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam.

Roles and commands

3 Apr 1922 – 5 Mar 1953General Secretary of the CPSU
8 Aug 1941 – 2 Sept 1945Supreme Commander-in-Chief

Events

23 August 1939Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
17 September 1939Soviet invasion of Poland
3 April 1940Katyn massacre
28 November 1943Tehran Conference
4 February 1945Yalta Conference

Sources

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