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The Dictator Files: Joseph Stalin

Can you guess these facts about the infamous dictator Joseph Stalin?
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Country (then part of the Russian Empire) where Stalin was born
Georgia
The first leader of the Soviet Union
V. I. Lenin
Stalin met with these "Big 3" Allied war leaders at Yalta in 1945
Winston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Term which referred to the division between free and Communist Europe after WWII
The Iron Curtain
Rival communist leader who was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940
Leon Trotsky
Soviet leader who "de-Stalinized" the Soviet Union in the 1950s
Nikita Khrushchev
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 _________
Statistic
Friendly nickname that Stalin was known by in the U.S. during WWII
Uncle Joe
What the name "Stalin" means
Man of Steel
Region of the USSR which suffered millions of the deaths during the
"Holodomor" famine of 1932–1933
Ukraine
"Archipelago" of forced-labor prisons that was greatly expanded by Stalin
The Gulag
City known as Stalingrad from 1925–1961
Volgograd
Job that Stalin initially trained for
Priest
Disease which scarred his face as a boy
Smallpox
Country that the USSR signed a non-aggression pact with in 1939
Germany
Prize which Stalin was nominated for in 1945 and 1948
Nobel Peace Prize
American western film star who Stalin supposedly tried to kill
John Wayne
Book that features a pig named Napoleon who is remarkably similar to Stalin
Animal Farm
The name given to Stalin's killing of at least 600,000 political enemies in the 1930s –
including almost every high ranking military officer
The Great Purge
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38 Comments
Tramp
+8
Level 79
May 24, 2017
I looked up the John Wayne thing. I found two quotes pretty funny.

""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!

kalbahamut
+11
Level 80
Aug 22, 2017
Easy. Read Montifiore's young Stalin biography a few years back. Fascinating man. Stalin didn't really establish the gulag system- though the name was adopted and the system was refined during his time in power. The practice of exiling prisoners to Siberia in order to colonize the more inhospitable areas of the Russian Empire was started by the tsars. Stalin himself was actually arrested and exiled six times in his early years (he kept making his way back).
kalbahamut
+4
Level 80
Dec 5, 2020
kudos for improving the wording of this clue
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 86
Aug 22, 2017
Wouldn't Stalin's birthplace, Georgia, be part of the Soviet empire, not the Russian Empire? Russia and Georgia were two separate Soviet Republics, along with the other 13.
BlueDragon
+17
Level 53
Aug 22, 2017
No. At the time of Stalin's birth (1878) the Soviet Union did not exist, and Georgia was part of the Russian Empire. After the Russian Revolution in 1917 Georgia declared itself an independent nation which lasted until 1921 when the Soviets invaded and absorbed Georgia into the Soviet Union
cornflakesfu
+5
Level 89
Dec 29, 2018
"Stalin supposedly tried to kill John Wayne" has gotta be one of the weirdest things I've ever learned on Jetpunk.
gzx5
+2
Level 75
Apr 28, 2020
John Wayne was the ultimate badass. When the US government informed him of the plan, he asked the CIA not to protect him and for Stalin's men to come see him so he could "take care of them".

Respect is almost an understatement on that one. Huge bromance.

Teegthebeeg
+5
Level 53
Jan 21, 2021
Of course . Such a badass that he spent WW2 hiding in movie studios while Jimmy Stewart commanded bombing raids over Germany, Douglas Fairbanks took part in immensely hazardous naval deception missions and David Niven fought in Normandy.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 80
Mar 4, 2022
He wasn't an actual badass. But he played one on TV.
Landanar
+6
Level 47
Apr 11, 2020
"What region of the Soviet Union suffered millions of the deaths during the "Holodomor" famine of 1932-1933?"

Kuban, South Siberia, Kazakhstan, Volga region and some others.

wkrpnyc
+8
Level 81
Apr 27, 2020
The Soviet famine encompassed the people and regions you mention, but Holodomor is a Ukrainian word and refers only to Ukraine.
jmellor13
+1
Level 68
Apr 27, 2020
As of last year, Stalin's approval rating in Russia is at a record-high 70%. This is 67 years after the man died. Totalitarianism is back in vogue. And some people still can't figure out why many in the United States are in a panic.
gzx5
+1
Level 75
Apr 28, 2020
Do you have a link to an article to support that claim?
jmellor13
+1
Level 68
Apr 28, 2020
I've seen it several times in the past year. Here's one article: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-05-09/stalin-is-more-popular-than-ever-in-russia-survey-shows
JWatson24
+2
Level 71
May 10, 2022
Of course he's popular. The guy running Russia right now is a Stalin wannabe and feeds the Russian people revisionist, neo-Stalinist propaganda.
Nathaniel
+7
Level 77
Apr 27, 2020
Aww, come on, I was really looking forward to being one of the few to know his real name, Djugashvili. Useless knowledge once more proven to be useless. XD
JohnnyYeet
+1
Level 64
Dec 9, 2020
Hard to spell tho
hasanabdi
+2
Level 70
Nov 20, 2022
is it not dzhugashvili?
harryb03
+1
Level 54
Feb 16, 2021
I learned it as the Great Terror rather than the Great Purge
Ilia
+2
Level 76
Nov 30, 2022
Yes, please accept "terror" as well.
Historyman0
+2
Level 38
Apr 14, 2021
stalin be like:

he protec, he attac, but most importantly, he push bac

GollossalKitty
+1
Level 44
Apr 15, 2025
batina batina batina...
anhi
+2
Level 55
May 2, 2022
Please accept "Ulyanov" for the first question. I don't see why Lenin's real name should not be accepted when his alias is.
KingBardlin
+3
Level 72
Nov 18, 2022
To be fair, Golodomor was just a big part of massive hunger back in 1933. Ukrainian president said that was a genocide just to get some attention to his country.
Kingsfisher
+3
Level 69
Jan 29, 2023
I would like to praise the Quizmaster for the neutrality of the quiz. I am glad that Stalin is not a "Holy and Kind Guy" here, as the Stalinists make him out to be, and not a "mad killer who destroyed 50 million",
cmr0
+1
Level 73
Mar 23, 2023
Still, the "Dictator" files speaks for itself. It's not that neutral
Neodymium
+6
Level 63
Mar 24, 2023
It's hard to deny that he was a dictator
cmr0
+2
Level 73
Mar 23, 2023
Also, "holodomor" famine, that suggest intentional famine to destroy ukrainians and other ethnicities,although in real life russians also suffered from this. And yes, it was not intentional, but rather accidental and was a mistake
Kingsfisher
+2
Level 69
Mar 25, 2023
By the way, the term "Holodomor" is really nonsense. How annoying it is for me. About Russia and Kazakhstan, who starved no less, everyone "forgets", exposing the famine as an alleged genocide of Ukrainians. They are already looking for any fact and distorting it so as to show how the Russians oppressed everyone. Although the USSR did a lot for the formation of Ukraine.
Dimby
+2
Level 82
Apr 28, 2025
You're entirely misinformed, or you are spreading propaganda. Hundreds of survivors have been interviewed, and they are consistent. Parts of Ukraine were specifically targeted to starve because they had resisted Soviet assimilation. Stalin wrote a letter in 1932, saying that 50 separate municipal Communist committees reported that the grain procurement quotas were unrealistic. In that same letter, he said that Ukraine must become a "Soviet Fortress" and that dissent had to be put down. Then he decreed that districts and collective farms were to be put on the "blacklist" if they failed to meet these unrealistic quotas. Over 75% of blacklisted districts were Ukrainian. There were literal trainloads of Ukrainian grain that just rotted in Soviet shipping depots. Ukrainian peasants were not allowed to leave famine-stricken areas. This famine didn't happen naturally, and it didn't happen everywhere equally.
QuizzerBros
+2
Level 69
Mar 23, 2023
Accept 'Nazi Germany'?
lesnops
+1
Level 74
Sep 16, 2023
Please accept "clergy" for "priest". Thank you for the quiz.
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 69
Feb 2, 2024
The ones I got were easy.
dlf1203
+1
Level 60
Jun 8, 2024
Way back in the 80's I was riding my bike around a college campus next to my hometown. A student group, I think they were the Young Communists or something like that, had put up posters celebrating the upcoming 100th birth of Stalin.

I took a marking pen and rode around adding thought balloons saying things like "where'd I put my icepick?" and "Let's go camping'"

haganshows
+1
Level 47
Jul 11, 2024
Stalin was not a dictator. Read a book.
GollossalKitty
+3
Level 44
Apr 15, 2025
haganshows was not a tanky. Read a book
In2restingFacts
+1
Level 27
Dec 1, 2025
don't defend authoritarianism for the sake of ideology cred, i'm a leftist but stalin and mao were definitely dictators and they killed a lot of people
SpodXVintader
+1
Level 53
Nov 29, 2025
I just learned that no one uses the nickname “Little Father of the People” in the United States. I'm so disappointed.
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