STALIN IS OUR BANNER! The famous image of Stalin in military uniform adorned posters and banners across the USSR as he built an all-powerful, god-like persona
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MAN OF STEEL JOSEPH STALIN
The dust was settling in the aftermath of World War II. Adolf Hitler was dead, but, just as Europe was celebrating the demise of one monstrous foe, another enemy was preparing to rise from within the Allies’ own ranks. This dictator would soak eastern Europe in blood and destruction, and prove himself to be just as formidable an opponent as Hitler. He was the Premier of the Soviet Union and leader of the Communist Bolshevik Party, Joseph Stalin, whose people worshipped him as a terrible, all-powerful god.