What is the ethnic backgrund of Joseph Stalin?
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He was from Georgia (not the state in the U.S.).  His real name is Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili but he adopted the name "Stalin" because that is the Russian word for "steel".
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Any one is welcome to enter the politics irrespective of their family. But the matter of concern is whether Stalin has the leadership qualities and Oratorical Skills that is father has. So only after developing these, can he think of becoming CM. Otherwise Dayanidhi Maran will take over.
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Ali Kerim Bay\nOr is it : Vavra, the Gypsy Leader you were looking for? LOL
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actually caucasian and chinese are belong to one family, all the caucasian are of chinese origin,
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A common connotation to the various definitions of "White" people, is that the term refers to people of European descent. Also generally associated with it are European culture and Western civilization or Western culture. In this sense, regions and countries that are today predominantly White include all the countries of Europe, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, European Russia, the United States, and Uruguay.\nUnlike most of its neighbouring countries, Argentina's population descends overwhelmingly from Europeans. The basic demographic stock (97% of the population) is made up of descendants of Spanish, Italian, German and other European settlers.\nWaves of immigrants from European countries arrived to Argentina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Patagonian Chubut Valley has a significant Welsh-descended population and retains many aspects of Welsh culture. Other important immigrant groups came from Germany (German colonies were settled in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Misiones, Formosa, Córdoba and the Patagonian region, as well as in Buenos Aires itself), France (mostly settled in Buenos Aires city and province), Scandinavia (especially Sweden), the United Kingdom and Ireland (Buenos Aires and Patagonia), and Eastern European nations, such as Poland, Russia, Ukraine and the Balkans region (especially Croatia and Serbia) and others. The overwhelming majority of Argentina's Jewish community, numbering about 400k, also derives from immigrants of Northern and Eastern European origin — Ashkenazi Jews. It is the largest Jewish community in Latin America and fifth largest in the world.\nMiddle Eastern immigrants number about 500,000, mainly in urban areas.\nSmall numbers of people from Far East Asia have also settled Argentina, mainly in Buenos Aires. The first Asian-Argentines were of Japanese descent, but Koreans, Vietnamese, and Chinese soon followed. There are also smaller numbers of people from the Indian subcontinent.
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Stalin was the leader of Russia during WW II.\n\nHitler had a treaty with Stalin that Germany would not attack Russia. But Germany broke the treaty and attacked Russia causing great damage (Russia was one of the worst affected countries of WW II). The Germans almost reached St. Peters burg. But winter came and that is when Russian striked back. The Russians were brutal during the war... and when the Russians surrounded Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide cause he himself feared what the Russians might do with him... so I would say the Russians played an equal role as America and its allies in bringing down Hitler.
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Stalin of course.  He did not misuse the name of All loving god to kill others.\n\nHe was the most honest of the three
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People who followed after Leon Trotsky who was a Russion revolutionary leader.
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The Roma people, often referred to as Gypsies, are a heterogeneous ethnic group who live primarily in Southern and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Latin America, southern states of North America and the Middle East. They are believed to have originated in the northern part of the Indian Subcontinent. They began their migration to Europe and North Africa via the Iranian plateau about 1,000 years ago.
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Stalin exercised complete control in all areas of his country, including all the media, the politburo, industry, research areas and even the artistic/cultural sphere.\nThrough propaganda, Stalin's control of all the media ensured that only good news (most of the time deliberate lies or gross exaggerations) reached its population, while the bad news, famines, bad results caused by his collectivization plans, etc., never reached the ears of the public except perhaps in the form of isolated rumours. He also controled the education system, and in all schools the children were taught to love him as "the father of the country", and a large personality cult was centered around him. Textbooks were also altered and biased to favour Stalin's rule and his policies.\nThrough terror campaigns, Stalin got rid of all his political enemies... first those inside the Communist Party, like Trotsky, and eventually, he begun to target anyone that showed any hints of independent thinking. Stalin's spies and secret police were omnipresent, and reported anybody that seemed slightly critical of his regime, or just because they were intelectual, and these people were sent to gulags where they faced years of imprisonment and forced labour or sometimes they were just brutally murdered. These people often had to face "faux trials", or "moneky trials" first, where they were accused of being counter-revolutionaries or traitors under false pretenses, to give some legitimacy to their dissapearances.\n\nAlso: For more info, there's always wikipedia. It's very helpful!\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
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Lenin.  \n\nGiven the history of the Soviet Union it's impossible to come to any other opinion than he failed in his aim to improve the lot of the Russian people.
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Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Mao or Pol Pot ??\n\nAll the above are tyrants .. dictators .. murderers\n\nthe first .. killed more than 20 millions .. mostly his own ppl.\n\nthe second .. killed more than 50 millions during his WW2 of 6 yrs .. he even ordered destruction of Germany itself on his last days in the Bunker\n\nthe third Mao .. maybe some 3-4 millions .. all were his enemies\n\nthe 4th .. PSYCHOTIC leader who killed his own ppl. about 4 millions .. and made a Pyramid of their skulls
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No, you got it mixed up. Stalin killed about as many if not more people than Hilter, Not Kruschev.
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"Why is Nazism so popular in slavic countries eg. Poland, Russia etc? \nI thought that Hitler considered Slavs to be scum of the earth\nand he wanted a war of annhiliation in Russia right?"\n\nWrong- Himmler considered Slavs "sub-human". The war in Russia was mostly political and economic, rather than "racial" (unless you were Semitic...)\n\nAnyway, why is Nazism so popular in Slavic countries? Because those countries got to suffer under Communism for decades! You also have to keep in mind that a lot of those countries were force-fed immigrants from non-European Third World countries. Now, those nations have to reap what the Bolsheviks sowed. Add to that a good dose of anti-Semitism, and Fascism/Nazism seems inevitable.
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Your question makes it sound as though one can be EITHER Jewish OR Italian, Jewish OR Spanish, Jewish OR Indian. That is simply not true. One can be of any nation and/or race, and still be a Jew. There are Asian Jews, Caucasian Jews, African-American Jews and even just African Jews, and there are Hispanic Jews, and Jewish citizens of every nation on earth.\n\nMy heritage is Russian and Jewish, actually Ukranian and Jewish.\n\nAnd, since you asked, i Love Judaism and being a Jew!
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I tend to see them as politicaly symmetrical however one was insane and the other was systematically evil.  Both had cult followings, no accountability or limits on their abuse of power and neither seemed to have a conscience.  They were sociopaths who became all powerfull.\nStalin was motivated by fear and Hitler was motivated by hatred.\nIt is true that when the NAZI purges of 1934 happened, Stalin grudgingly admired Hitler's methodology and would have preferred that method, rather than all the tedius legal show trials and tortures used for confessions employed in Russia.
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It is Stalin not Stallin.\n\nHitler was worse because he was a nazi and targeted a specific race. Stalin was also horrific in his belief of violence against anyone that opposed his idea of government.