Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

Protesters were told to either spoil their ballot paper or vote for one of the three token candidates standing against ... as long as the dictator Joseph Stalin. Putin is behaving like a modern ...