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On December 18th, 1879 Besarion Jughashvili, a poor Russian cobbler, and his wife Ketevan Geladze welcomed baby boy Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, later known as Joseph Stalin.
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Mrs. Ketevan Geladze was an extreme Orthodox Russian. Her wishes for her son were that he would become a priest.
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Stalin gets expelled from Tiflis Theological Seminary .
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Stalin joined the Bolsheviks in 1903, during that time he was responsible for organizing paramilitaries, strikes, spreading propaganda, and raising money through bank robberies, ransom kidnappings, and extortion.
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Stalin gets married to his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, one son and one year later Ekatrina dies of tuberculosis in Stalin's arms
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After being involved in the1907 Tiflis bank robbery, which resulted in 40 deaths and the embezzlement of US $3.4 million, the Russian Empire exiled Stalin to Siberia.
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Bolsheviks overthrow Provisional Government and seize power Stalin plays a small role in this though.
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Once again, Joseph Stalin gets married this time to Nadezhda Alliluyeva. They have two children a boy and a girl; fourteen years later she was found dead with a revolver beside her.
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Stalin is elected General Secretary of the Communist Party
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The goal of this policy was to join individual land and labor into collective farms, which porfits go t the government.
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Stalin's wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, commits suicide.
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Stalin begins to deport and purge people out of Russia, this continued for four years.
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Stalin led the Soviet people in the fight against Nazi Germany.
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Russian Red Army captured Berlin.
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On the night of March 1st Stalin was found lying in his pijamas and covered with urine by Peter Lozgachev, the Deputy Commandant of Kuntsevo. Lozgachev immediately called in for doctors. Four days later. on March 5th Stalin died.