3 de Abril de 1922.

Joseph Stalin became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin (help·info) is the form usually used in English for the Russian name of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), born with the Georgian name Ioseb Jugashvili (Georgian: ოისებ ჯუღაშილი, Russian: Иосиф Джугашвили); (18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878[1] – 5 March 1953).

He was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s to his death in 1953. When he joined the Bolsheviks, he took on the name of "Stalin" (Сталин), which is derived from the Russian word for steel.

Stalin's rule was characterized by a strong cult of personality, an extreme concentration of power, and little concern for the consequences of harsh policies. Stalin attempted to suppress all opposition through a bureaucratic network of terror. Western and other non-Soviet scholarly estimations of number of dead due to Stalin's mistakes, improper and cruel policy, based primarily on demographic dynamics, sometimes vary by 40-50 million with the highest numbers more than 60 million and 20 million claimed by some to be "average" number.[2] Some argue that if not for Stalin, then the USSR could have lost WWII with the Soviet peoples destroyed. Others instead argue that the war was won despite Stalin, who is seen as responsible for enormous initial military defeats.

Joseph Stalin was arguably the most powerful single individual ever lived on Earth: on his death he was the undisputed, and much feared, master of the destinies of more than a billion people, if we are to include Maoist China, at that time (1953) a staunch Soviet ally. If the highest death figures given by historians are accepted, he was also the greatest mass murderer in history, responsible for more deaths than even Adolf Hitler. This is obviously debatable, since Soviet fatalities during the Great Patriotic War - some 26 million, according to recent estimates - are clearly, at least in their majority, a consequence of the Nazi aggression waged by Hitler. China's Mao Zedong, on the other hand, is said by many to have caused a clearly worse death toll than the two "evil giants" of the 20th century: the Chinese leader is currently held responsible for some two-thirds of all victims of Communism in the 20th century. So Stalin's role as "first murderer of history" remains a disputed point.

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