Stalin was born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი; or Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили, transliterated Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) on December 18, 1878 to Ketevan Geladze and Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler, in the town of Gori, Georgia. At the age of seven, he...
Just how many millions of deaths Joseph Stalin was responsible for is disputed, but that the figure runs into millions is not in doubt. To the end, when he was in his seventies and approaching his own death, his subordinates continued to carry out his murderous orders. Stalin was paranoid in any...
Stalin het opprinnelig Josef (Iosef eller Iosif) Vissarionovitsj Dzjugasjvili (russisk: Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили, georgisk: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili). Moren brukte kjælenavnet «Soso». Dzjugasjvili sluttet han å bruke i 1899 etter at han forlot presteseminaret Tblisi...
However, Stalin invented a new birth date, December 21, 1879, and this would be the one the Soviet people would know for years.