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| Author | Deng Xiaoping |
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| First published | April 26, 1987 |
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- Genocidal war criminal David Ben-Gurion declares the independance of the Zionist Entity.
1958
- The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance is singned.
1970
- Andreas Baader is freed from custody by future Red Army Faction members Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin
1980
- During the Salvadoran Civil War Fascist forces murdered between 300 and 600 refugees in the Sumpul River massacre.
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Josef Stalin Иосиф Сталин იოსებ სტალინი | |
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 Portrait of comrade Stalin | |
| Born | Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili December 21, 1878 Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Georgia) |
| Died | March 5, 1953 (aged 74) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Cause of death | Cerebral hemorrhage |
| Nationality | Georgian |
| Political orientation | Marxism–Leninism |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Iósif Vissariónovich Dzhugashvili (21 December 1878 – 5 March 1953), better known as Joseph Stalin, was a Georgian Marxist–Leninist revolutionary, political theorist, and the elected[1] leader of the Soviet Union from 3 April 1922 to 16 October 1952, serving several terms as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during that time.
Stalin oversaw the great period of collectivisation and industrialisation which transformed the USSR from an illiterate rural backwater to a socialist superpower by the late-1930s and early-1940s. Under Stalin's leadership, the USSR played a principal role in the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan during World War II.
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- ↑ “After the conference, in May 1917, a Political Bureau of the Central Committee was instituted, to which Stalin was elected and to which he has been successively re-elected ever since.
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On Lenin's motion, the Plenum of the Central Committee, on April 3, 1922, elected Stalin, Lenin's faithful disciple and associate, General Secretary of the Central Committee, a post at which he has remained ever since.”
Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute (1949). Joseph Stalin: a political biography (pp. 34, 48). [LG]