Both Uses
Stalin
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- And it would be Stalin's troops who would really beat Hitler: seventy-five percent of the German troops who died fighting in World War II were killed by Russian troops.†
Chpt 3. *Stalin = Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
- In late July, the Big Three leaders of the Allied nations—Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Harry Truman of the United States, and Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union—met in Potsdam to map out the closure of the Pacific War.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(Stalin as in: Joseph Stalin) Soviet leader who ruled as a harsh, totalitarian dictator (1879-1953)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)