Joseph Stalin was born in 1879.  He was the main person who shaped the Soviet regime during World War II.  Stalin had a willingness to rally and sacrifice humans which proved very helpful in most notably the Battle of Stalingrad.  In his last years Stalin was paranoid and physically weak.  Joseph tried to kill lots of Jewish doctors but died before the bloodbath occured.  Stalin was one of the members of the “Big Three”, which was made of him, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.  Joseph Stalin died in 1953.