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Man of Steel, Rule by Terror
Russian revolutionary Ioseb Jughashvili took the name Josef Stalin -- "man of steel." Building on the network of spying and terror created by Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, he ruled with an iron fist. During his brutal reign from 1929 to 1953, he put to death some 10 million Soviet citizens suspects of being spies or enemies of the state. |