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1. Joseph Stalin

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   After signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (a non-aggression treaty that secretly partitioned Eastern Europe) with Nazi Germany in August 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland and Finland. The German invasion of the USSR in June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) marked the beginning of the [Great Patriotic War](/entries/great-patriotic-war/}.
   Despite initial devastating setbacks attributed partly to Stalin's purge of the Red Army command structure, the Soviet Union ultimately defeated the German forces through massive mobilization, adaptation of industrial capac…