Stalin (December 18, 1878 – March 5, 1953), full name Joseph Visariovich Stalin, was the supreme leader of the former Soviet Union. This photograph is of Stalin's youth and is very rare. Even from the current point of view, Stalin was indeed handsome when he was young.
There is no doubt that Stalin was one of the most important politicians of the last century. During Stalin's tenure, he comprehensively implemented the policy of collectivization of agriculture and implemented large-scale industrialization in the form of a planned economy, turning the Soviet Union into a heavy industry and military power. However, this one-sided emphasis on industrialization has also caused great problems in people's livelihood.
[Stalin and Lenin group photo] This photo is widely circulated, and there are two details that have attracted everyone's attention: one is that Stalin's expression is intriguing and imaginative; the other is what kind of meaning Stalin's gestures express, resulting in various interpretations. But one thing is certain, stalin would hardly have had a chance to become the leader of the Soviet Union without Lenin's support.
As the supreme leader of the Soviet Union for the longest time, Stalin had a profound impact on the Soviet Union and even the world in the twentieth century. According to Stalin himself, he joined the revolutionary movement from the age of 15, "I was connected to the underground group of Russian Marxists living in Transcaucasia at that time. ”
[Stalin during the Yalta Conference] In July 1928, Stalin proposed a new concept according to which "the intensification of the class struggle is inevitable on the way to socialism", which was not in line with Lenin's proclamation of the New Economic Policy, which resulted in its abolition. The consequences were staggering, leading to a great famine in the Soviet Union.
On June 18, 1936, Gorky died in the arms of his secretary and lover Mulla, the cause of death is a mystery. Decades later, mulla died with secret material showing that Gorky had eaten a poisonous sugar before his death. After Gorky's death, the scale of the funeral was unprecedented, and Stalin personally carried him a coffin to help him.
Stalin and Churchill Although Churchill and Stalin clashed on many issues, this did not prevent Churchill from highly praising Stalin. Churchill said of Stalin: "He took over a Russia that was ploughed with a wooden plow, and what was left was a Russia with an atomic bomb. ”
On July 11, 1941, germany attacked the city of Vitebsk, and three Soviet armies fell into a circle, including the 14th Howitzer Regiment of the 44th Tank Division, in which Captain Yakov served as the commander of the howitzer company, and Yakov was captured. The Germans proposed to Stalin that if Marshal Paulus, captured at the Battle of Stalingrad, were released, they would also release Yakov. Stalin refused, and said the widely circulated phrase, "I will never exchange soldiers for marshals!" ”
On March 5, 1953, Stalin died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 73. After Stalin's death, the Soviets held a grand funeral for him, and countless people poured into Moscow's Red Square to participate in the mourning service. At the time of the funeral, the people who carried Stalin's coffin were all Soviet bigwigs, and each one was bigger than the other.
After the grand funeral, Stalin's coffin was placed next to Lenin's crystal coffin. However, on the eve of the October Revolution In 1961, Stalin's coffin was removed from Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square and buried at the foot of the Kremlin wall.