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:"''By the time of his state funeral in March 1953 the man the world knew effectively as "Uncle Joe Stalin" had been dead for four days. The people of the Soviet Union wept openly for their dead leader. To the Russian people Stalin was a saviour. The great leader who had plucked them and the country from the jaws of [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Hitler]'s [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Nazi_Party nazis] and kept the Americans at bay. As they filed past his corpse few care to recall that Stalin had another darker reputation as the murderer of millions of his own people. Stalin turned Soviet Russia into one of the bloodiest killing rounds the world has ever seen.''" | :"''By the time of his state funeral in March 1953 the man the world knew effectively as "Uncle Joe Stalin" had been dead for four days. The people of the Soviet Union wept openly for their dead leader. To the Russian people Stalin was a saviour. The great leader who had plucked them and the country from the jaws of [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Hitler]'s [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Nazi_Party nazis] and kept the Americans at bay. As they filed past his corpse few care to recall that Stalin had another darker reputation as the murderer of millions of his own people. Stalin turned Soviet Russia into one of the bloodiest killing rounds the world has ever seen.''" | ||
:—Introduction to a Discovery channel documentary. | :—Introduction to a Discovery channel documentary. | ||
'''Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin''' (born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili'; December 18, 1878 – March 5, 1953) was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. He was one of the biggest mass murderers to have ever existed and remains a controversial figure today, with many regarding him as a tyrant similar to his wartime enemy [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler], others as a capable and necessary leader for the time. | '''Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin''' (born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili'; December 18, 1878 – March 5, 1953) was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. He was one of the biggest mass murderers to have ever existed and remains a controversial figure today, with many regarding him as a tyrant similar to his wartime enemy [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler], others as a capable and necessary leader for the time. | ||