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set gName = getat(["Stalin"],1)
@[]###TROTSKY EXPELLED FROM PARTY#FALL OF LENIN'S OLD GUARD#SOVIET MILITARIZATION OF FARMS@VENGEANCE FOR KIROFF: FOURTEEN MORE SHOT#TRIAL OF SOVIET OLD GUARD#FORMER GPU CHIEF ARRESTED##DEFECTING RED ARMY OFFICER SPEAKS OF PURGES@[]#GERMAN ARMY ATTACKS RUSSIA##GERMAN ANXIETY TO TAKE LENINGRAD##ALL RESISTANCE OVER AT STALINGRAD@[]#VICTORY PLANS DRAWN UP IN CRIMEA##DEATH OF MR STALIN
The name Stalin was a revolutionary alias. He was born Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili. He was also known as Ryaboi, Melikyants and Koba#Stalin's father was a cobbler and drunkard, who beat the young Stalin frequently#Stalin was educated in a Church school and seminary in Georgia, and his mother wanted him to become a priest#As a young Bolshevik, Stalin helped organise daring bank raids to raise money for the cause. Lenin heartily approved, and called him "my marvellous Georgian"#Stalin's wife Nadezhda committed suicide in the Kremlin in Moscow in 1932 as the great purges got under way#When his son Yakov was captured by the Germans in 1941, Stalin refused to exchange him for German prisoners. Yakov died in a camp#His daughter Svetlana thought Stalin was a prisoner of his own system, 'stifling from loneliness, emptiness and lack of human companionship'#Stalin allowed his salary as general secretary to pile up in unopened envelopes on his desk#Stalin's favourite film, which he often watched during the purge years, was the light romantic musical called "Volga-Volga"#The Russians call the Second World War the 'Great Patriotic War'#At the time of his death, Stalin was believed to be planning a massive purge of Jews and intellectuals#Since the late Fifties, scores of thousands of his victims have been posthumously rehabilitated. Their mass graves are still being found#Ten years after his death, his mummified corpse was removed at night from the mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow and buried under concrete in a deep pit#The city of Stalingrad, named in his honor, has been renamed Volgograd#Stalin was a Georgian and spoke Russian with a strong accent all his life. This made him seem a provincial nobody to snobbish Bolshevik intellectuals such as Trotsky, and Stalin hated them for it
