the Soviet Red Army's T-10 heavy tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin), but was renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization?
the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II?
after Winston Churchill handed Joseph Stalin the Sword of Stalingrad (pictured) at the Tehran Conference, a clumsy Soviet general let it slip out of its scabbard?
the Saviour's Lutheran Church in Baku, Azerbaijan (pictured) survived Joseph Stalin's rule by promising to pray for him?
the concept of a national personal autonomy was strongly opposed by the Bolsheviks, and criticized by Lenin and Stalin?
the organizers of the 1937 Soviet Census (poster pictured) were imprisoned because the counted population numbers were far lower than expected by Joseph Stalin?
the construction of Stalingrad-class battlecruisers was cancelled soon after their major supporter, Joseph Stalin, died in March 1953?
according to legend, Joseph Stalin remained in Moscow during World War II partly due to a prophecy from Matryona Nikonova, who he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government?
Vasili Blokhin, chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD, led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during Joseph Stalin's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
Soviet defector Boris Bazhanov became the only assistant at Joseph Stalin's secretariat to ever turn against the Soviet regime?
Joseph Stalin personally rewrote Falsifiers of History to respond to U.S.-released information about the German–Soviet Axis talks?
Joseph Stalin imposed a tax on childlessness, which forced bachelors and childless families to pay an additional 6% income tax until the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov was the author of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin erected in the USSR during the period of Stalinism?
Alexander Novikov, double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force, was used to frame Marshal Zhukov, then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin?
Ujazdów Avenue in Warsaw was renamed after Stalin in 1953, but the traditional name was restored three years later?
Miron Merzhanov was a personal architect to Joseph Stalin from 1933–1941?
U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen received the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which contained an understanding between Hitler and Stalin to split Central Europe, from German diplomat Hans von Herwarth?