31. Many were drawn to renew religious ties broken when their ancestors, many of them political prisoners, were exiled by the late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. 32. More Russians arrived during mass deportations of political and other prisoners under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. 33. President Boris Yeltsin has ordered that classified archives on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin be made public, the presidential press spokesman said Wednesday. 34. Rivera and Kahlo were communists and Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, exiled by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, was a guest in their house. 35. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his underlings had bad teeth and preferred platinum dentures, according to a dentist who treated generations of Communist leaders. 36. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin first kept the country out of World War II by signing a nonaggression pact with Hitler that divided Europe into spheres of influence. 37. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered all ethnic Germans in the region deported to Siberia and the former Soviet republic of Kazakstan as potential traitors. 38. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his underlings all had bad teeth and preferred platinum dentures, according to a dentist who treated generations of Communist leaders. 39. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin exiled them to Central Asia for allegedly helping the Nazi cause in World War II. 40. Tens of millions of Russians were executed or died in prison camps during purges by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. |