Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili and shortened to Joseph Stalin, is the General Secretary of the Soviet Union since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. Stalin's brutal rise to power and expulsion of political rivals, notably Leon Trotsky, resulted in the Roterspaltung of 1926 and the dissolution of positive relations with the German Socialist Republic. He rules the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using absolute totalitarian force to spread his power and will.

Stalin molded the Soviet Union's Marxist-Leninist ideology into a new form of Communism simply known as Stalinism. He has gradually begun building his nation through what he calls Five Year Plans, incorporating industrialisation and agricultural upheaval of the country. Stalinism as a whole rivals German Spartacism, and it is believed these two ideologies will eventually clash into what is called Roterkrieg, or Red War.

Stalin often refers to himself as the face of Communism, rivalling German leader Walter Ulbricht, and seeks to one day usurp Germany under a much more Stalinist banner.