Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin and Ribbentrop at the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 23, 1939 at Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact refers to the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact.
Joseph Stalin with U.S.President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, November 1943.