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title: "Facts About Joseph Stalin"  
description: "One of the towering figures of all time, things might have been very different for global politics had, Stalin not been around here's some facts on Stalin"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-17  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1342/facts-about-joseph-stalin  
category: "history"  
tags: ["Joseph Stalin", "Stalin", "Joseph", "Dictator", "Russia"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Facts About Joseph Stalin

![Facts About Joseph Stalin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6caa475b-e8d1-4b93-8768-828cb0fafee8/images/df7dff6f-2be8-4c48-9675-f6f8a956bfce.jpeg) ![Facts About Joseph Stalin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6caa475b-e8d1-4b93-8768-828cb0fafee8/images/7b865aa0-2f7a-465b-a49a-14f08f090f8c.jpeg) Smallpox as a child left him with lasting scars and a deformity ![Facts About Joseph Stalin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6caa475b-e8d1-4b93-8768-828cb0fafee8/images/f4869ec0-c550-489d-8290-24e52bd7306e.jpeg) His mother sent him to study to become a priest ![Facts About Joseph Stalin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6caa475b-e8d1-4b93-8768-828cb0fafee8/images/24a3bb78-456b-4ae9-af08-823e381db834.jpeg) His nom de guerre means “man of the steel hand” ![Facts About Joseph Stalin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6caa475b-e8d1-4b93-8768-828cb0fafee8/images/ac97f813-ce7b-4d43-ab00-673383bdefba.jpeg) At one point he lived in the Kremlin with Lenin and Leon Trotsky ![Facts About Joseph Stalin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6caa475b-e8d1-4b93-8768-828cb0fafee8/images/766db2f6-722b-4935-ac86-951635649e5f.jpeg) He became the de facto Dictator of the Soviet union ![Facts About Joseph Stalin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6caa475b-e8d1-4b93-8768-828cb0fafee8/images/c4f03432-860a-4cd4-8d40-27c411beb0aa.jpeg) He developed his own brand of Marxism ![Facts About Joseph Stalin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6caa475b-e8d1-4b93-8768-828cb0fafee8/images/4a4a4a44-5f74-4d3a-b4bb-e32922c8e35a.jpeg) He oversaw the country’s industrialisation

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