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Joseph Stalin


Background: Was born on December 21, 1879. He was born in Gori Georgia, a county by Russia. He was his mothers 4 child in less than 4 years. The first 3 died and his mother was very protective of him. The family was a poor, but religious family. When he was 7 he got smallpox. Despite his poverty and sickness he did well in school and he


How He Rose to Power.:

How He Lost His Power:
Joseph Stalin never really lost his power.
He held his power until his death.
Joseph Stalin died by Cerebral Hemorrhage on March, 5 1953.- (Stroke)
After he died Nikita Khrushchev Succeeded to control power of the Soviet Union.
He was remembered as the man who saved his country from Nazi domination. - and as the mass murderer of the century. He saw 8 to 10 million deaths just from his own people.
He died when he was 75 years old.