1.   But Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin employed many of the same tactics he had previously used in peacetime to suppress opposition to his rule, Overy says.

2.   For example, I recall learning that Joseph Stalin was a ruthless Soviet dictator whose political victims numbered in the tens of millions.

3.   Ford later presented a bronze eagle, an enlarged three-dimensional version of the one on the presidential medal, to Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet dictator.

4.   Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who had heard her sing, wanted her to come to Russia to star in the Moscow Opera.

5.   Soviet dictators would have settled for this.

6.   Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of the late Soviet dictator, showed up at the U.S. Embassy and asked for political asylum.

7.   President Alexander Lukashenko promised Wednesday to further tighten his rule in this former Soviet republic and to introduce measures similar to those used by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

8.   A grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin submitted his candidacy Saturday to run for president of his native Georgia.

9.   A grandson of the late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was named Thursday to lead an alliance of Communists and other leftist groups in campaigning for parliamentary elections in October.

10.   A teacher was arrested after attacking a bust of Josef Stalin that marks the grave of the former Soviet dictator on Red Square, official said Friday.