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Barring the possible existence on earth of undetected saints and major prophets, about the most important person in the world last week was Joseph Vissarionovitch Djugashvili. He was better known to the world as Joseph Stalin, Marshal and chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Historic Force | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...went by gaily-he spent it just with me. Joseph Vissarionovitch joked a lot and was gay and happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: No. 1 Sob | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Excerpts: "We visited the mother of Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin. A few days previously Stalin had been there. Keke, his 75-year-old mother, was friendly and in good spirits. She told us of those 'unforgettable minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: No. 1 Sob | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Soviet Commissariat gave him 20,000 acres which had belonged to a monastery, conferred on him the orders of Lenin and of the Red Banner. Comrade Michurin never bothered about money, reputedly refused a fat offer to work in the U. S. Last fortnight he wrote to Dictator Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin, thanked him for raising "a lone experimenter, unrecognized and ridiculed, to the position of a leader and organizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Red Burbank | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

Grim, far-sighted Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili. known from Leningrad to Cape Horn as Stalin, last week told Russia what to do for the next five years. Dictator Stalin may change his mind, but barring a national catastrophe or acts of God (in whom he does not believe; Russia will do as he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Five Years from Now | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

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