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December 21, 1879: Birth of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, later known as Stalin
August 23, 1939: Hitler makes peace pact with Soviet Joseph Stalin
September 1, 1939: Start of World War II
June 21, 1941: Hitler invades Soviet Union
August 1942-1943: Battle of Stalingrad. Germans are defeated and is turning point in
war.
6. April 31, 1945: Hitler commits suicide in Berlin, ending war in Europe.
7. January 1953: Announcement of Jewish “Doctor’s Plot”, another of Stalin purge
8. March 5, 1953: Joseph Stalin dies of a stroke and fatal brain hemorrhage.
9. February 1956: Nitka Krushchev addressed in “secret session” of the 20th party
Congress, denouncing Stalin, thus beginning the process of de-Stalinization.
10. August 1991: Fall of the Berlin Wall and allows access to records of Stalin’s crimes