Monday, January 12, 2015

Today in 1913, in Imperial Russia.

After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ('man of steel) in a letter to the the paper, Social Democrat. 

A young Josef "Stalin"

Eventually, the name would become synonymous with brutal repression.

[January 12, 1913]

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