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| {{wikipediainfo}} | | {{merge|Joseph Stalin|"Josef Stalin" is a widely used alternate spelling of his name; these are obviously the same individual.}}'''Josef''' was the president of his country for several decades. During his time in office, he met the [[Seventh Doctor]] several times. |
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| | origin = [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]
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| | job = General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union {{!}} General Secretary
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| '''Joseph Stalin''' (born '''Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'')), also spelled '''Josef Stalin''', was a [[communism|communist]] [[dictator]] of the [[Soviet Union]]. He served as the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'')
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| == Biography ==
| | When Josef was dying, he captured [[Ace]] to force the Doctor to visit him. He had figured out that the Doctor could see his future and wanted to know what his legacy would be. The Doctor told him that for over a hundred years, people would vilify him, but after that, people would realise that his actions, though sometimes wrong, were the right thing to do and they would continue his work. The Doctor watched as Josef's servant, [[Grigori (Closing the Account)|Grigori]], put something in Josef's drink. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Closing the Account (short story)|Closing the Account]]'') |
| Stalin, [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] once met at [[Yalta]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beguine (short story)|Beguine]]'') to discuss the partitioning of [[Europe]] after [[World War II]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'')
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| The [[Seventh Doctor]] visited an old man named Josef who had been [[president]] of his country for decades. He told Josef that, though people would vilify him for over a century, they would eventually realise that his actions were the right thing to do, and they would continue his work. [[Grigori (Closing the Account)|Grigori]] subsequently slipped [[drug|something]] into Josef's drink. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Closing the Account (short story)|Closing the Account]]'')
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| === Alternate timeline ===
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| In an alternate timeline, [[Simon Brown]] shared the secrets he had learned about [[atomic bomb]]s with the world. Fearing every nation having access to atomic weapons, Stalin bombed the planet, and the political organisation known as "[[the Party]]" took over. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winning Side (novel)|The Winning Side]]'')
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| == Personality ==
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| It was said that Stalin liked to listen to the sound of mad [[dog]]s barking. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'')
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| == References ==
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| In an exchange between the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Davros]], supposedly following the latter's [[Davros' trial (Revelation of the Daleks)|first trial]] on [[Skaro]], revealed on the [[Dalek]]s' [[memory screen]] during the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s [[interrogation]], Davros demonstrated an awareness of Josef Stalin and the Doctor likened the two men. However, the [[Emperor Dalek (Nemesis of the Daleks)|Emperor Dalek]] did observe that the Seventh Doctor was attempting to distort his [[memory|memories]] as the Daleks accessed them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)|Emperor of the Daleks!]]'')
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| When the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose]] encountered "men in black" and "vanishing police cars" in England in [[1953]], the Doctor compared it to Stalin's [[Russia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)|The Idiot's Lantern]]'')
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| [[Краснодар]] contained a poster of Stalin. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes == | | == Behind the scenes == |
| * According to ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', a book that contains [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] based information, in an alternate universe where all of history happened at once, Stalin played [[live chess]] with [[Cleopatra]].
| | Josef is a reference to [[Joseph Stalin]]. |
| * He was played by [[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]] in an episode of ''Thirty-Minute Theatre'', [[David Bradley]] in an episode of ''Theatre Night'', [[Bernard Kay]] in an episode of ''Screen Two'' and [[Simon Russell Beale]] in the play ''Collaborators''.
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This page should be merged.
It should be relocated at Joseph Stalin because "Josef Stalin" is a widely used alternate spelling of his name; these are obviously the same individual.
Talk about it here or check the revision history for additional comments.
Josef was the president of his country for several decades. During his time in office, he met the Seventh Doctor several times.
When Josef was dying, he captured Ace to force the Doctor to visit him. He had figured out that the Doctor could see his future and wanted to know what his legacy would be. The Doctor told him that for over a hundred years, people would vilify him, but after that, people would realise that his actions, though sometimes wrong, were the right thing to do and they would continue his work. The Doctor watched as Josef's servant, Grigori, put something in Josef's drink. (PROSE: Closing the Account)
Behind the scenes
Josef is a reference to Joseph Stalin.
