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Joseph Stalin

Russia's goalkeeper Ilya Bryzgalov attends a quarter-final USA vs Russia game of the IIHF International Ice Hockey World Championship in Helsinki on May 16, 2013. Bryzgalov who plays with the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL) found today himself skating on very thin ice after praising the rule of Joseph Stalin and saying there was 'logic' in the actions of the Soviet tyrant.

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About Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin (born December 18, 1878  – March 5, 1953) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union.

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