Joseph Stalin 

About Me:   

MySpace URL: www.industrializerussia.myspace.com/

My Mood:  stressed; industrialization is hard work

Nickname: "Man of Steel" (my prison name lol)

Birthday: December 21, 1879

Death: March 5, 1953 (at least, that's what they think!)

     Salutations my friends, I am Joseph Stalin.  I was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 to 1953 and I was known for being a revolutionary but, ruthless, dictator. (Really, who isn't??)  I was born in Gori, Georgia on December 21, 1879.  My family consisted of my mother, a washer, my father, a bootmaker and drunkard, and three deceased siblings (all born and died from about four years before I was born).  I was prone to illnesses and contracted smallpox at the age of seven.  That time scarred me for life, leaving my beautiful face marred.  For years i was ridiculed for my appearance--eventually, it became so horrific that my mother enrolled me in a seminary school.  There I joined the society known as Messame Dassy, in which i had opportunities to meet many revolutionaries and was introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx.  (What an amazing man!)    

     In the year nineteen hundred and three I joined the Bolsheviks.  While I originally worked completely against the Mensheviks, after meeting Lenin, the first head of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I joined with the Mensheviks to plot the assassination of a Cossack general.  I continued gathering money for the Bolsheviks through extortion, robbery and other illegal manners.  

     I married my lovely wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, in the summer of 1906 and we soon had my first son, Yakov.  Regretably, she died of Typhus not long after this, when we were hiding in Baku after I was involved in a bank robbery which resulted in the death of 40 people. 

     In the following years I was arrested and jailed multiple times in attempts to stop my plans to industrialize.  Or, possibly, they didn't like the vast number of murders, robberies, kidnappings, and movements against the government of the time that I was conduting in my attempts.  Although, I really don't see this as likely--everyone was doing it back then.  Also, I did start that newspaper, the Pravda, from an already existing party paper.  I guess I just have a small, miniscule really, problem with authority.  I spent the next 15 years of my life promoting industrialization and modernization of Russia, which I planned to make the next world power.  (turns out, I eventually did!)

     At an April 1917 Party Conference I was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee.  From then on, I worked very closely with my superior, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky.  Together, we set out to overtake the Russian government system.  We used any means necessary, often losing thousands of lives and eventually totalling in the millions.  I killed a total of 20 million by anything ranging form blatant murder to needless and unintentional starvation. 

I was also involved in Russian Civil War, the Soviet-Polish War, and the Red Army.  During my time I advanced the military expertise of Russia, including the secret police and intelligence agencies. 

After Lenin suffered a stroke and only Leon Trotsky was left in command above me.  In 1840 I had Trotsky assassinated in Mexico.  The assassin killed Trotsky with an ice axe.

In the following years, I worked to advance the collectization of agriculture.  I guess it didn't work out though, because, soon, famine became a major problem.  Especially in 1892 when the famine caused between 375,000 and 400,000 deaths.  It was really my fault because I refused to open the grain reserves that would have alleviated the famine.  I was convinced that the peasants had caused the situation and should fix it themselves.  Obviously, they didn't fix it for a long time.  

By the 1920s I was implimenting my Five-Year-Plans for industrialization.  Though at first it failed, it eventually advanced the Russian economy in a major way.

 As we headed into the 1930s, I focused on the religious situation.  I hoped to adcvance the Russian Orthodox Church and persecuted all others, killing priests, monks and sisters alike.  I was absolutely devoted to my mission.

     Adolf Hitler and I struck up a non-aggressive pact in 1939.  In it, we divided the whole of eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.  But, Hitler broke the pact on June 22, 1941 by implementing Operation Barbossa, which allowed German invasion of Soviet lands.  This began the war on the Eastern Front.  We fought him back and even contacted Britain for aid.  

Even after the war ended, I was strong in promoting industrialization.  Russia became a world power and millions were killed along the way, so I was happy.        

I was a violent man...the mustache says it all. 

My Hobbies:

*gardening

*reading

*watching movies/theatrical productions

*avant-garde experimentation

*expressionism

*abstract art

*social realism

My Interests:

*modernizing Russia's economy

*industrialization of the USSR

*working with the Bolshevik Party

*Marxism

*Roman Orthodox Church

My Heroes:

*Lenin--I followed in his footsteps in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee (we were both part of the "Old Bolsheviks")

*Karl Marx--I was introduced to his revolutionary communist ideas while being a member of the secret society named Messame Dassy. 

My Enemies:

*General George Patton

* F. D. Roosevelt------------\(both) didn't inform me about the decisions at Casablanca

*Winston Churchill---------/(both) didn't inform me about the decisions at Casablanca

*Leon Trotsky--he was in the way of my being in power, so I had him assassinated using an ice axe

*Adolf Hitler--he broke our pact and invaded soviet lands (I don't think he's dead, and neither should you!)

My Favorite Saying(s):

*Death solves all problems--no man, no problem.

*I trust no one, not even myself.

*Die, but do not retreat.

*History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Me on the Web:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

http://who2.com/ask/josephstalin.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml

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