* Born December 18, 1879 in Georgia which was part of the Russian Empire
* Supreme ruler of Soviet Union for a quarter of the century
* Spent 15 years as an activist and was arrested and exiled to Siberia
* In 1922, he was made general secretary of the communist party
* After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin promoted himself as his political heir and gradually outmaneuvered his rivals
* By the late 1920's, Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union
* During the Great Terror of the 1930's, thousands of people were executed and millions were sent to Gulag system of slave labor camps
* His forced collectivization of agriculture cost millions of lives
* After WWII, the Soviet Union entered the nuclear age and ruled over an empire which included most of eastern Europe.
* Stalin dies of a heart attack on 5 March 1953
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