Stalin

American  

[stah-lin, -leen, stal-in, stah-lyin] / ˈstɑ lɪn, -lin, ˈstæl ɪn, ˈstɑ lyɪn /

noun

1. Joseph V. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili, 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.

2. a former name of Donetsk.

3. former name of Varna.

4. former name of Braşov.

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Stalin ¹ British  

/ ˈstɑːlɪn /

noun

1. Also called: Stalino.  a former name (from after the Revolution until 1961) of Donetsk

2. the former name (1950–61) of Braşov

3. the former name (1949–56) of Varna

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Stalin ² British  

/ ˈstɑːlɪn /

noun

1. Joseph . original name Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili . 1879–1953, Soviet leader; general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53). He succeeded Lenin as head of the party and created a totalitarian state, crushing all opposition, esp in the great purges of 1934–37. He instigated rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture and established the Soviet Union as a world power

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Example Sentences

In the past, it was used by Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev.

From The Wall Street Journal

This isn’t inaccurate: The customers at Vienna’s Café Central in 1913 included Trotsky and Freud, as well as the still-anonymous Hitler and Stalin.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bush that Stalin had “severed” Mongolia from China.

From The Wall Street Journal

These views went unchallenged by Mr. Carlson, as did Mr. Fuentes’s praise for Joseph Stalin.

From The Wall Street Journal

Barton also posted that Aluko was in the "Joseph Stalin/Pol Pot category", saying she had "murdered hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of football fans' ears".

From BBC

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