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December 21, 1879: ·birth of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, later known as Stalin
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December 1905: ·Stalin goes as a delegate to Bolshevik meeting in Finland, he there meets Lenin for the first time.
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February 1918: ·Stalin marries Nadezhda Alliluyeva
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April 1922: ·Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party
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October-November 1926: ·At the Fifteenth Party Congress, Stalin attacks the "United Opposition" of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky.
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1931-32: ·Terrible famine across the Soviet Union; millions die
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August 1936: ·First "Show Trial." Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies confess and are executed.
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April 31, 1945: ·Hitler commits suicide in bombed-out Berlin, ending war in Europe. Red Army controls all of Eastern Europe. This is a good thing.
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September 1949: ·Soviets explode their first atomic bomb.
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March 5, 1953: ·Death of Stalin
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“A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.” If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” “Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.” “Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?”
