Hint
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Answer
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Who preceded Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union?
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V. I. Lenin
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Who were the other two leaders of the "Big 3" allied leaders of WWII?
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Winston Churchill
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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What country (then part of the Russian Empire) was Stalin born in?
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Georgia
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What term referred to the division between free and Communist Europe after WWII?
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The Iron Curtain
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What rival communist leader was assassinated in Mexico City on Stalin's orders?
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Leon Trotsky
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What Soviet leader of the 1950s and 1960s "de-Stalinized" the country?
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Fill the blank in this quote that is mis-attributed to Stalin: The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a _________
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Statistic
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What region of the Soviet Union suffered millions of the deaths during the "Holodomor" famine of 1932–1933?
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Ukraine
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By what friendly nickname was Stalin known in the U.S. during WWII?
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Uncle Joe
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What does the name Stalin mean?
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Man of Steel
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What "archipelago" of forced-labor prisons was greatly expanded by Stalin?
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The Gulag
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What city was known as Stalingrad from 1925–1961?
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Volgograd
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What job did Stalin originally train for?
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Priest
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What disease scarred his face as a boy?
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Smallpox
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With what country did the USSR sign a non-aggression pact in 1939?
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Germany
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What prize was Stalin nominated for in 1945 and 1948?
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Nobel Peace Prize
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What American western film star did Stalin supposedly try to kill?
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John Wayne
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What book features a pig named Napoleon who is remarkably similar to Stalin?
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Animal Farm
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What was the name of Stalin's killing of at least 600,000 political enemies - including almost every high ranking military officer in the late 1930s?
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The Great Purge
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""Yakima told me that the FBI had discovered there were agents sent to Hollywood to kill John Wayne," said Mr Munn. "He said the FBI had come to tell John about the plot. John told the FBI to let the men show up and he would deal with them.""
Which is just hilarious, and...
"Wayne also told Mr Munn about an attempt to kill him by an enemy sniper while he was visiting the troops in Vietnam in d1966. "One of the snipers was captured," said Mr Munn, "and said there was a price on John's head, put there by [China's communist leader] Mao Tse Tung.""
So, if true, he supposedly survived Stalin AND Mao!
Stalin was a psychopath, a great oppressor and a mass-murderer, but if he didn't came to power, the fate of Slavic people of Central and Eastern Europe could have been mass extermination and enslavement, as was in the intention of Nazi government.
Japan, whose monstrous deed was responsible for the US entry into
WWII now appears to carry favorite nation status. Strange, indeed!
Don't get me wrong--Stalin was still a terrible terrible person and deserves no apologies. But, if I had to choose between living in Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany, I'd choose the former any day.
I cannot believe I actually have to say this to you but defeating the nazis (which certainly helped) doesn't somehow excuse all of the atrocities he committed.
Respect is almost an understatement on that one. Huge bromance.
Kuban, South Siberia, Kazakhstan, Volga region and some others.
he protec, he attac, but most importantly, he push bac