Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich

1.

Stalin, Joseph
Vissarionovich

2.

Iosif Dzhugashvili was born in a Georgian
family (a number of sources express versions
about the Ossetian origin of Stalin's
ancestors) in the city of Gori, Tiflis province
and was a native of the lower class

3.

During Stalin's
lifetime and for a
long time after
his death, it was
believed that he
was born on
December 9,
1879, but later
researchers
established a
different date of
Joseph's birth —
December 6 (18),
1878 — and the
date of baptism
on December 17
(29), 1878.

4.

Having gained freedom as a result of the February Revolution, Stalin returned to
Petrograd. Before Lenin's arrival from exile, he was one of the leaders of the
Central Committee of the RSDLP and the St. Petersburg Committee of the
Bolshevik Party, was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Pravda.

5.

According to a number of historians, Stalin was guilty of poor
preparation of the USSR for the war. Huge losses are also blamed on
him. It is believed that he ignored intelligence reports about the
imminent attack of Nazi Germany, even though he was told the
exact date.

6.

The death of
Joseph
Vissarionovich
Stalin occurred
on the evening
of March 5,
1953, at the age
of 75, due to a
brain
hemorrhage
that occurred,
presumably, on
March 1 due to
hypertension
and
atherosclerosis