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Iosif (with an I not an L) Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili is the Russian version of the birth name Josef Stalin, the Soviet dictator. Stalin was from Georgia, and his actual birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.
When Communists became politically active, they sometimes adopted psuedonyms. Iosif took the name "Stalin", which is Russian for "man of steel".
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