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Josef Stalin

Иосиф Сталин
Portrait of comrade Stalin
Born
Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili

(1878-12-18)December 18, 1878
Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Georgia)
DiedMarch 5, 1953(1953-03-05) (aged 74)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathCerebral hemorrhage
NationalityGeorgian
Political orientationMarxism-Leninism

Iósif Vissariónovich Dzhugashvili, more popularly known as Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of Central Committee of Communist Party of Soviet Union from 3 April 1922 to 16 October 1952.

Early Life

Stalin was born on the 18th of December, 1878 in the Georgian town of Gori, which was part of the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire. Like his parents, Stalin was an ethnic Georgian, and he grew up speaking the Georgian Language.

Stalin's revolutionary activities can be traced to his time as a student in the Orthodox Spiritual Seminary in Tiflis, beginning in 1894. An avid reader, he read the seminal Das Kapital written by Karl Marx, subsequently taking a profound interest in Marxism

Post-Revolution

False claims of antisemitism

Despite right wingers and fascists spreading rumours of Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy theories, some historians have made baseless claims that Stalin was an anti-semite. For refutation please see the below letter from Stalin.

In answer to your inquiry :

National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-semitism is dangerous for the working people as being a false path that leads them off the right road and lands them in the jungle. Hence Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable, sworn enemies of anti-semitism.

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

— J. Stalin, Reply to an inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States [1]


Legacy

References

  1. Stalin: Reply to an inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States MIA link