People who criticize Stalin or draw attention to crimes committed under Stalin are now threatened with jail, with media ...

The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of ...

But he wasn’t born Joseph Stalin… His birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, or Soso for short. Most of his early life he was poor, and after his father became an abusive alcoholic ...

Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, who was regarded as one of the ... The dictator had a rough childhood, his father was a shoemaker and an alcoholic who regularly beat him while his mother ...

How did Stalin get away with murder ... a continual need to prove himself. His father is an alcoholic who deals out regular beatings. As young Joseph grows up, Georgia’s romantic folklore ...

Joseph Stalin’s son surrendered to the Germans ... wrote in her memoirs that her father believed his son deliberately surrendered to the Germans after being encouraged to do so by his wife.