Some observers ( including George Kennan ) believed that the Japanese treaty led Stalin to approve a plan to invade U. S .- supported South Korea on June 25, 1950.

The Congress became divided between two factions, between the one supporting Stalin, and those who supported Kamenev and Zinoviev.

Stalin had a different policy outside the Soviet Union ; he supported the Communist Uyghur Muslim separatists under Ehmetjan Qasim in the Ili Rebellion against the Anti Communist Republic of China regime.

In Greece, Britain and the United States supported the anti-communists in the Greek Civil War and suspected the Soviets of supporting the Greek communists, although Stalin refrained from getting involved in Greece, dismissing the movement as premature.

During World War II Stalin had supported the dictator of China, Chiang Kai-Shek, as a bulwark against Japan and had turned a blind eye to Chiang's mass killings of communists.

Stalin originally supported the creation of Israel in 1948.

Adenauer and his cabinet were unanimous in their rejection of the Stalin overture ; they shared the Western Allies ' suspicion about the genuineness of that offer and supported the Allies in their cautious replies.

In the subsequent power struggle among Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, and Stalin, Bukharin allied himself with Stalin, who positioned himself as centrist of the Party and supported NEP against the Left Opposition, which wanted more rapid industrialization, escalation of class struggle against the kulaks, and agitation for world revolution.

Subsequently, China independently pursued the ideology of Maoism, which still largely supported the legacy of Stalin and his policies.

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.

Stalin moved to form an alliance with Bukharin and his allies on the right of the party who supported the New Economic Policy and encouraged a slowdown in industrialisation efforts and a move towards encouraging the peasants to increase production via market incentives.

Seeing that Joseph Stalin did not intend to change his policies, he supported compliance with some of the demands.

On the other hand, Stalin supported the more conservative members of the Communist Party and advocated for a state run capitalist economy.

Stalin had initially supported the NEP against Leon Trotsky, but switched in favour of Collectivization as a result of the Grain Procurement Crisis and the need to accumulate capital rapidly for the vast industrialization programme introduced with the Five Year Plans.

The majority faction, led by Cannon, supported Trotsky's position that the USSR remained a " workers ' state " and should be supported in any war with capitalist states, despite their opposition to the government headed by Joseph Stalin.

Stalin approved a North Korean plan to invade U. S .- supported South Korea in June 1950.

Without exception Zhivkov imitated or supported Soviet twists and turns such as Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Some of the committee members were vocal supporters of the State of Israel, established in 1948, something that Stalin supported very briefly.

Eventually, the Poles believed, the UK and US firmly supported Stalin on all three issues.

The CPGB at first supported the war, but after Joseph Stalin signed a treaty with Adolf Hitler, opposed it.

These occurrences shocked Mao, who had supported Stalin ideologically and politically, because Khrushchev was dismantling Mao ’ s support of the USSR with public rejections of most of Stalin ’ s leadership and actions — such as announcing the end of the Cominform, and ( most troubling to Mao ), de-emphasising the core Marxist – Leninist thesis of inevitable war between capitalism and socialism.

In 1939, because Joseph Stalin wished to sever the ties between the Republic of Turkey and the Turkic peoples living within the Soviet Union, he decreed that only the Cyrillic script be used.

The Japanese annexation of Manchuria and rumored support for Ma Zhongying's Hui forces were one cause for concern troubling Joseph Stalin, another was the prospect that rebellion in Xinjiang might spread to the Soviet Central Asian Republics and offer a haven to Turkic Muslim Basmachi rebels.

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

In 1951, Bai Chongxi made a speech to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against the Soviet Union, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Joseph Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

Crimean Muslims were subjected to mass deportation in 1944 when Joseph Stalin accused them of collaborating with the Nazi Germany.

Stalin, the second major contender, and future leader of the Soviet Union, was the least known of all the contenders, and he was not a popular figure with the masses.

But there was a problem ; Stalin was known for his brutality.

The ruling Communist party, known as the " Socialist Unity Party " ( SED ), was formed in April 1946 from the merger between the German Communist Party ( KPD ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) by mandate of Joseph Stalin.

On 10 March 1952, ( in what would become known as the " Stalin Note ") Stalin put forth a proposal to reunify Germany with a policy of neutrality, with no conditions on economic policies and with guarantees for " the rights of man and basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, religious persuasion, political conviction, and assembly " and free activity of democratic parties and organizations.

After taking around 300, 000 Polish prisoners in 1939 and early 1940, 25, 700 Polish POWs were executed on 5 March 1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Lavrenty Beria, in what became known as the Katyn massacre.

Like other Bolsheviks, he became commonly known by one of his revolutionary noms de guerre, of which " Stalin " was only the last.

The assumption in Moscow was that once it was known that he had lost Soviet approval, Tito would collapse ; ‘ I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito ,’ Stalin remarked.

In 1952, the Stalin Note, as it became known, " caught everybody in the West by surprise ".

He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council ( led by Leon Trotsky ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 defense of Tsaritsyn.

It is also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact, Hitler – Stalin Pact, German – Soviet Non-aggression Pact and sometimes the Nazi – Soviet Alliance.

Joseph Stalin, who was the first general secretary of the party, also was known as " Comrade File Cabinet " ( Tovarishch Kartotekov ) for his assiduous attention to the details of the party's appointments.

It later became known that Stalin was actually aware of the atomic bomb before Truman was, as he had multiple spies that had infiltrated the Manhattan Project from very early on ( notably Klaus Fuchs, Ted Hall, and David Greenglass ), while Truman had only learned about the weapon after Roosevelt's death.

It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

Stalinism is commonly used in a negative or pejorative manner due to the known extremely repressive political actions undertaken by Stalin.

As a staunch supporter of Joseph Stalin, he became known as " Red Count " or " Comrade Count " and his work was acknowledged to be classics of the Soviet literature.

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.

Having fled Germany to Russia, Messing again became known to the authorities and Stalin took a personal interest in his supposed abilities.

It was thought to be the highest point in the Pamirs in Tajikistan until 1933, when Ismoil Somoni Peak ( known as Stalin Peak at the time ) was climbed and found to be more than 300 metres higher.

Zinoviev and Kamenev broke with Stalin in 1925 and joined Trotsky in 1926 in what was known as the United Opposition.

It is known that Molotov was one of few with whom Stalin openly discussed the purges.

Although the treaty is known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, it was Stalin and Hitler, and not Molotov and Ribbentrop, who decided the content of the treaty.