On this day 146 years ago, on December 21, 1879 (November 9, 1879 lunar calendar), Stalin was born. Stalin (1879-1953) Joseph Visalionovich Stalin, leader of the Soviet Party and state, activist of the international communist movement. Stalin's original surname is Djugashvili, and he was born on December 21, 1879 to a family of shoemakers in Gori, Georgia, Russia. He participated in revolutionary activities when he entered an Orthodox secondary school in 1894. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1898 and was elected to the Tiflis (now Tbilisi) committee of the party in 1901. He carried out revolutionary activities in Tiflis, the South Caucasus and Petersburg. In December 1904, he led the Baku oil workers' strike. In December 1905, he met Lenin for the first time at the 1st All-Russian Conference of Bolsheviks. In January 1912, he was elected as a member of the Party Central Committee in absentia at the 6th Party Congress and was entrusted by the Party to lead the work of the Russian Bureau of the Party Central Committee. In the spring of 1912, he was responsible for founding Pravda. From the end of 1912 to the beginning of 1913, he wrote "Marxism and the National Question". From March 1901 to February 1917, Stalin was arrested 7 times, exiled 6 times, and escaped from exile 5 times. After the February 1917 revolution, Stalin returned to Petrograd, led the work of Pravda, and served as a member of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee. At the 6th Party Congress held in August, he made a report on the political work of the Central Committee and a report on the political situation. In October, he was elected to the party headquarters leading the uprising and participated in the organization and leadership of the October Socialist Revolution. He later served as the People's Commissar for Ethnic Affairs (1917-1922) and the People's Commissar of the Ministry of State Supervision (1919-1922). During the 1918-1920 Civil War, he served as a member of the National Defense Committee of Workers and Peasants, a member of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Republic, and a military commissar of the Southern Front, Western Front, and Southwest Front. He contributed to the defense of the Red Regime and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In April 1922, he was elected as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Bolsheviks) at the first meeting of the newly elected Central Committee of the 11th Party Congress. After Lenin's death in January 1924, Stalin gradually became the main leader of the party and state of the Soviet Union. He led the whole party and the people of the whole country to realize socialist industrialization and agricultural collectivization, and made achievements in socialist transformation and construction. He criticized Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin and other opposition groups within the party and expelled them from the leading organs. In 1936, he made a report on the draft of the new constitution of the Soviet Union and announced the completion of socialism in the Soviet Union. In 1941, he concurrently served as Chairperson of the People's Committee of the Soviet Union (renamed Chairperson of the Council of Ministers since 1946). After the start of the Great Patriotic War, he served as the Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces. He led the Soviet people in an arduous battle for 4 years, achieved a great victory in the Anti-Fascist War, and contributed to the cause of world peace and human progress. After the war, he led the Soviet people to rapidly restore and develop the national economy. From 1950 to 1952, he published "Marxism and Linguistic Problems" and "Economic Problems of Socialism in the Soviet Union". He died on March 5, 1953. Stalin made great contributions to the revolution and construction of the Soviet Union, but also made several serious mistakes. Stalin and Lenin