Stalin personally never thought much of it, and neither commented publicly on his performance nor awarded him recognition ( i. e. Order of Victory ) as he did for most other Soviet Marshals.

Biographer Daniel Jaffé argued that Prokofiev, " having forced himself to compose a cheerful evocation of the nirvana Stalin wanted everyone to believe he had created " ( i. e. in Zdravitsa ) then subsequently, in these three sonatas, " expressed his true feelings ".

The building was originally known as the Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science ( Pałac Kultury i Nauki imienia Józefa Stalina ), but in the wake of destalinization the dedication to Stalin was revoked ; Stalin's name was removed from the interior lobby and one of the building's sculptures.

In March 1952, the Soviet government proposed the Stalin Note to hold elections for a united German assembly while making the proposed united Germany a neutral state, i. e. a neutral state approved by the people, similar to the Austrians ' approval of a neutral Austria.

* Jakob Andersen med Oleg Gordievsky: " De Røde Spioner-KGB's operationer i Danmark fra Stalin til Jeltsin, fra Stauning til Nyrup ", Høst & Søn, Copenhagen ( 2002 ).

While leading the USSR, Joseph Stalin imprisoned and executed, i. e. purged, " wreckers ", or citizens accused of plotting against communism.

They believe that the political and economic choices of Joseph Stalin extend back to Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy and were ultimately endemic to the Soviet Union's entire history — i. e., the history of socialism and its concessions to capitalism, which in PLP's view cannot lead to communism.

Stalin opposed Kilbom ’ s suggestions and together with Ernst Thälmann, who now saw Karl Kilbom as a personal enemy, Stalin started to develop the idea of Social fascism, i. e., that social democrats were just as bad as fascists.

In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: ( 1 ) a mutual assistance / aid pact and ( 2 ) a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.

File: The Commissar Vanishes 2. jpg | Censored: Yezhov deleted from Stalin ’ s left.

The " Big Three " at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, February 2, 1945.

* November 6 – WWII: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule ( the first time was earlier that year on July 2 ).

* August 2 – Opening of the Stalin White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal, a 227 km navigable waterway constructed using forced labour in the Soviet Union connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the Baltic.

* 1945-July 17-August 2 Potsdam Conference ; President Harry S. Truman meets with Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee ; tells Stalin of atomic bomb ; gives Japan last warning to surrender ; Germany ( and Austria ) divided into 4 zones of occupation

The Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco " harmonizing " and getting along quite well.

Though the Shah announced that guests should donate money to a special charity for the Iranian poor, among the wedding gifts was a mink coat and a desk set with black diamonds sent by Joseph Stalin ; a Steuben glass Bowl of Legends designed by Sidney Waugh and sent by U. S. President and Mrs. Truman ; and silver Georgian candlesticks from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and the 2, 000 guests included Aga Khan III.

* Moscow Metro 2 is a purported secret underground metro system in Moscow built supposedly during ( or from ) the time of Joseph Stalin.

* Moscow: Stalin 2. 0-video report by Global Post

He and his party members were also charged under Sections 120 ( b ) ( criminal conspiracy ), 167 ( public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury ), 420 ( cheating ) and 409 ( criminal breach of trust ) of the IPC, and Section 13 ( 2 ) read with 13 ( 1 )( d ) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, but no prima facie evidence was found against him and his son M K Stalin.

Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov (; January 2, 1880, Tula – January 16, 1949, Moscow ) was a Russian weapons designer, Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service, Doctor of Technical Sciences ( 1940 ), and Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1940 ; he received the second such award in its history just two weeks after Joseph Stalin himself ).

The three Soviet Fronts involved in the campaign had altogether 2. 5 million men, 6, 250 tanks, 7, 500 aircraft, 41, 600 artillery pieces and mortars, 3, 255 truck-mounted " Katyusha " rocket launchers ( nicknamed ' Stalin Organs ' by the Germans ), and 95, 383 motor vehicles.

Before leaving Paris, Orlov left 2 letters for the Soviet Ambassador, one for Stalin and one for his henchman Yezhov.

Ekaterina " Kato " Svanidze ( Georgian: ეკატერინე " კატო " სვანიძე ; April 2, 1885 – December 5, 1907 ) was the Georgian first wife of Joseph Stalin.

The Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia () was a document promulgated by the Bolshevik government of Russia on November 15 ( November 2 by Old Style ), 1917 ( signed by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin ).

The order was officially adopted on the 8th of November 1943, and was first awarded to Georgy Zhukov (# 1 ), Alexandr Vasilevsky (# 2 ), and Joseph Stalin (# 3 ).

Chinese Stamp in 1950 depicting Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Although postal service in China goes back some 2, 500 years, modern postal services were not established until 1877 by the Qing government.

One of the main theses of Hoffmann book ( Chapter 1 and 2 ) was that Stalin had planned a war against Nazi Germany in 1941.

Also, Dmitri Volkogonov in his book about Stalin quoted an MVD document that reports 2, 572, 829 on 1 January 1950.

It is akin to the World War 2 conference in Yalta in which Stalin, Roosevelt and the other allies agreed to divide the known world into eastern and western power blocs whilst Germany and Japan are still sovereign.

From 30 January to 2 February, the heads of government of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States — Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, respectively — attended preliminary discussions on the Yalta Conference in Malta.

* Moscow: Stalin 2. 0-video report by Global Post

On 10 July 1929, Radek alongside other oppositionists Ivar Smilga and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, signed a document capitulating to Stalin., with Radek being held in particular disdain by oppositionist circles for his betrayal of Yakov Blumkin, who had been carrying a secret letter from Trotsky, in exile in Turkey, to Radek.

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed that the nations in league with the Axis powers would be divided into territories to be controlled by the USSR, the U. S., and the UK.

Although Molotov and Stalin signed a public decree in 1938 which disassociated them from the then ongoing Great Purge., in private, and even after Stalin's death, Molotov supported the Great Purge and the executions committed by his government.

Roosevelt responded to Bullitt, Jr., with a statement summarizing his rationale for wartime relations with Stalin:

Leaders sometimes focus on fulfilling their own agendas at the expense of others, including his / her own followers ( e. g., Pol Pot ; Josef Stalin ).

Some authors ( e. g., Alexander Zinovyev ) have argued that Leonid Brezhnev's rule was also characterized by a cult of personality, though unlike Stalin, Brezhnev did not initiate large-scale persecutions in the country.

Stalin felt that exalting individual pilots was not dangerous to his own political interests because although the skill, strength, fortitude, etc., of the pilots were praised, Stalin was held as “ ultimately responsible ” for their achievements.

* Bollinger, Martin J., Stalin ’ s slave ships: Kolyma, the Gulag fleet, and the role of the West, Praeger, 2003, 217 p., ISBN 0-275-98100-2

* Hochschild, Adam, The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 ), 304 pp., paperback: ISBN 0-618-25747-0

* Radzinsky Edvard, Stalin: the first in-depth biography based on explosive new documents from Russia's secret archives, Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, 594 p., ISBN 0-340-60619-3

Bouis, Antonina W., Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator ( New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 ).

Lange returned to the United States at the end of May, met with Free Polish London Exile Prime Minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk, who happened then to be in Washington, D. C., stressed how reasonable Joseph Stalin was prepared to be, and asked the State Department to put pressure on the exiled Poles.

Stalin desperately wanted their weapons, including anti-aircraft guns, howitzers, anti-tank guns, machine guns etc., but he was critically short of money.

Arts during the rule of Joseph Stalin were characterised by the rise and domination of the government-imposed style of Socialist realism, with all other trends being severely repressed, with rare exceptions ( e. g., many notable Mikhail Bulgakov's works-however the full text of his The Master and Margarita was published only in 1966 ).

Similarly, when Braşov changed its name to Oraşul Stalin in 1952, the regional code was also changed to O. S., before reverting to Bv in 1960.

However, in a 1986 television interview on CBS's 60 Minutes, he defended the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the building of the Berlin Wall ( saying it was for " self-defense "), and compared Ronald Reagan to Joseph Stalin, which angered many in the U. S., including Reed's family and friends.

The reason given by an editor was that for the " renowned " ( e. g., Stalin, Lenin ), no courtesy title was deemed necessary.