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English: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Georgian or in Russian patronymic nomenclature Iosif. When World War II ended in 1945 few doubted that the victor's laurels belonged mainly to Joseph Stalin his leadership the Soviet Union won war of century.
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TWO FASCINATING WORLDS, TWO JOURNEYS..In TOURING WITH STALIN you mingle with a company of New York actors as they tour the country in 1952 in a production of Arthur Koestler's drama, Darkness At Noon, which deals with the fate of a collegue of Josef Stalin. Alternately you follow the career of the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union from his youth in a seminary, through his wily takeover after the Communist Revoution, through the blood baths that swept away even his loyal followrs, until his mysterious death in 1953.