dirtnapp / is joseph stalin alive or dead?
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
dead
no longer with us. rest easy.
- born
- 1878
- died
- 1953
- age at death
- 75
- known for
- politician, revolutionary, opinion journalist
1878 – 1953
where this comes from
wikidata records a date of death for Joseph Stalin in 1953, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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