“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

Joseph Stalin (1878 to 1953)

Joseph Stalin, Russian in full Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, original name (Georgian) Ioseb Dzhugashvili, secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922 to 1953) and premier of the Soviet state (1941 to 1953), who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union and transformed it into a major world power.