We are humbled in your presence, O' glorious, mighty Stalin! You are the great leader of the Soviet Union, a power risen by your hand from the decay of the Russian Empire. No country deserves more credit for defeating Nazi Germany than the Soviet Union. When he finally died in 1953 there was an enormous outpouring of genuine grief across the Soviet Union.Overall, it must be said that Stalin was successful in changing the backwards agricultural state of the tsars into a modern global superpower. Stalin had no interest in becoming a priest, but the seminary was one of the few institutions of higher learning permitted in Georgia by the repressive tsarist government.ĭuring his reign Stalin encouraged the development of a sycophantic cult of personality where he was worshipped as little less than a god. Stalin graduated first in his class at the age of fourteen and began attending school next at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. At the age of eight, Stalin began his education in the Gori Church School, where instruction was conducted in Russian and he was mocked for his Georgian accent. His father was a cobbler who often beat his wife and young son. Stalin was born in 1878 to a poor Georgian family. His birth name was Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, but to the world he will always be known simply as Stalin ("man of steel" in Russian). A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. It was governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 19.
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