Stalin

[stah-lin, -leen, stal-in, stah-lyin]

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.

Stalin

¹

/ 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

Stalin

²

/ 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

Example Sentences

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

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Mr. Fuentes has called Adolf Hitler “awesome” and has pronounced himself a “fan” of another mass murderer and antisemite, Joseph Stalin.

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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".

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Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, had a very different vision.

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“They admire Hitler and Stalin and that splinter faction is now being facilitated and normalized within the mainstream Republican Party.”

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