- Joseph Stalin
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (March 5 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, …
- Josef Vissarionovich Stalin
Josef Vissarionovich Stalin Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich (né Djugashvili ) (1879-1953). Along with Hitler and Mao Tse-tung , Stalin was one of the three genocidal monsters of the 20th century. Soviet dictator and war leader, supreme commander in the 1941-5 ‘Great Patriotic War’ and one of the ‘big three’ with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill . In 1945 he appointed himself generalissimus (general of generals), a title only previously awarded to the great Suvorov .
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
I was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until my death in 1953. This was later followed by my resurection in 1954. Despite my formal position being originally without significant influence, and my office being nominally but one of several Central Committee Secretariats, my increasing control of the Party from 1928 onwards led to me becoming the de facto party leader and the dictator of my country.
- Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
Dear God, we paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing! last christmas i gave you my heart, but the very next day, u gave it away.
- Josef Stalin
I like long strolls around da Kremlin grounds under da moonlight on cold, Moscow nights, and I prefer my vodka shaken not stirred, Comrade. Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
eh i am known to say some pretty strange things I like to think of weird things to do then get other people to do them its fun!!!
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Benjamin Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin
- Jan Myrdal
Jan Myrdal (born 19 July, 1927 in Bromma, Stockholm) is a Swedish author, leftist-political writer and columnist. He is a honorary doctor of literature at Upsala College University in New Jersey, USA, and a Ph.D. at Nankai University in Tianjin in China. He has lived at various times in the United States, Afghanistan, Iran and India. He is the son of the Social Democrats and Nobel Laureates Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal; he broke completely with both at an early age.
- Gabriele Amorth
Fr. Gabriele Amorth (born May 1, 1925) is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the senior exorcist of Vatican City. Amorth was born in Modena, Italy in 1925. He was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest in 1954 and became an official Vatican exorcist in June 1986 under the tutelage of Father Candido Amantini. He is a member of the Society of St. Paul, the Congregation founded by James Alberione in 1914.
- Leon Sedov
Leon Lvovich Sedov was the son of the Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova. Leon Sedov was born when his father was in prison facing life sentence for having led the first Soviet in the Revolution of 1905. He lived separately from his parents after the October Revolution in order not to be seen as privileged. He later supported his father in the struggle against Josef Stalin and became a leader of the Trotskyist movement in his own right.
- Jakub Berman
Jakub Berman (born December 26, 1901, in Warsaw, then Russian Empire - died April 10, 1984), was a Polish communist politician of Jewish origin. As a member of the Polish United Workers' Party's Politbiuro he was in charge of the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa and considered Josef Stalin's right hand in Poland between 1944 and 1953. He received a Law degree in 1925 from the Warsaw University, and was an assistant to Marxist sociologist Prof. Ludwik Krzywicki.
- Pavel Fitin
Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin (1907 Ozhogino, Kurgan Region, Soviet Union - 24 December 1971) was a Soviet intelligence officer. Fitin graduated from a program in engineering studies at the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1932 after which he served in the Red Army, then became an editor for the State Publishing House of Agricultural Literature. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) selected him for a special course in foreign intelligence.
- Alexander Luria
Alexander Romanovich Luria was a famous Georgian neuropsychologist and developmental psychologist. He was one of the founders of cultural-historical psychology and psychological activity theory.
- Aleksandr Dugin
Aleksandr Gel'yevich Dugin ("Russian": Александр Гельевич Дугин is a Russian political activist and ideologue of the contemporary Russian school of geopolitics often known as "neo-Eurasianism". He is often seen to be an advocate of National Bolshevism and is well known for his anti-Semitism, Russian nationalism and chauvinism. Dugin comes from a military family.
- David Bergelson
David (or Dovid) Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer. Ukrainian-born, he lived for a time in Berlin, Germany. He moved back to the Soviet Union when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. He was ultimately executed during Josef Stalin's anti-semitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans".
- Hans Eppinger
Hans Eppinger Jr. (January 5, 1879-September 25, 1946) was an Austrian physician who gained an infamous reputation due to experiments on prisoners. Hans Eppinger was born in Prague, the son of the physician Hans Eppinger Sr.. He received an education in Graz and Strassbourg. In 1903 he became a medical doctor in Graz, working at a medical clinic. He moved to Vienna in 1908, and in 1909 he specialized in internal medicine, particularly conditions of the liver.
- Oleg Troyanovsky
Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky (24 November 1919 - 21 December 2003) was ambassador of the Soviet Union to Japan, China, and the United Nations (from 1977 to 1986.) Troyanovsky was born into diplomatic family. His father, Aleksandr A. Troyanovsky, served as the first Soviet ambassador to the United States from 1934 to 1938. Although he was born in Moscow, Oleg attended the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
- Ivan Sanchin
Alex Ganchin was from 1939 through 1951 the private projectionist of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. His story is portrayed in the 1991 film "The Inner Circle"; however, the name of the character portraying him was changed to Ivan Sanchin, possibly in reference to Russian folk tales with a bumbling, dumb character named Ivan.
- Nikolay Shvernik
Nikolay Mikhailovich Shvernik was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (or President of the USSR) from March 19, 1946 until March 15, 1953. Though the titular head of state Shvernik, in fact, had little power as the real authority lay with Josef Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Shvernik joined the Bolsheviks in 1905.
- Dorothy Healey
Dorothy Ray Healey (September 22, 1914-August 6, 2006) was a long-time activist in the American Communist Party, from the late 1920s to the 1970s. In the 1930s, she was one of the first union leaders to advocate for the rights of Chicanos and blacks as factory and field workers. In 1956 Healey read the "Secret Speech" of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, …
- David Karr
David Harold Karr also David Carr, born David Katz. Karr was born in Brooklyn and began writing at a relatively young age for the Communist Party USA publication, the "Daily Worker". In 1943 Karr came under the scrutiny of Rep. Martin Dies, chairman of the House Special Committee on Un-American Activities for his Communist affiliations. Karr was at the time working for the Office of War Information (OWI).
- Solomon Perel
Solomon Perel was born April 21, 1925 in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany to a German Jewish family. The Perels were harshly persecuted when the Nazis came to power, and Solomon's father eventually moved the family to Łódź, Poland in 1935 after their shoe shop was vandalized by German Nazi sympathizers. When the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, Solomon and his brother Isaak attempted to escape to the Soviet-occupied part of Poland.
- Alex Munter
Alexander Mathias Munter (born April 27, 1968) is a former politician and journalist in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. Munter's family emigrated from Germany to Montreal in 1966, two years prior to his birth. His family moved to the Ottawa region in 1977, and settled in the Katimavik-Hazeldean area west of the city. At age 14, Munter began publishing the "Kanata Kourier" from his basement as a monthly local paper for the suburban community of Kanata, Ontario.
- Eddie Rosner
Adolph Eddie Rosner (born 1910 in Berlin-died August 8, 1976 in Berlin) was a Polish and Soviet Jazz musician called "The White Louis Armstrong" or "Polish Louis Armstrong" in different sources. This is in part because of his rendition of the St. Louis blues. He was born of a Polish Jewish family in 1910. He initially studied classical music, but became drawn to jazz by the age of fifteen.
- Leopoldo Bravo
Leopoldo Bravo was an Argentine politician and diplomat. As well as serving in the Argentine Senate and as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he was a three-time governor of San Juan Province and considered a "caudillo". Bravo qualified as a lawyer at the University of La Plata in 1942. At a young age Bravo joined the leadership of the "Partido Bloquista", a provincial party which split from the Radical Civic Union in the time of Hipólito Yrigoyen.
- Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia ("Olga Alexandrovna Romanova") (June 13, 1882-November 24, 1960) was the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia under the reign of her elder brother, Czar Nicholas II. Her father was the 19th century reformer of Russia, Alexander III; her mother was the daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna, formerly titled Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Raised at the Gatchina Palace of St. Petersburg, Russia, …