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• Joseph Stalin (noun)
  1. 1879-1953 russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition
• Stalin Peak (noun)
  1. 24,590 feet high the highest mountain peak in the Pamir Mountains; near the Chinese border in northeastern Tajikistan
• Stalin, Joseph
  1. (1879-1953) a Russian politician, born in Georgia, who was leader of the former Soviet Union from the death of LENIN (1924) until his own death. Stalin was responsible for developing farming and industry in his country, and for successfully leading it in the war against Germany (1941-45), but most people now remember his great cruelty. Thousands of political opponents were killed or sent to prisons in Siberia, and Stalin's secret police made ordinary people live in fear.
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