72 years ago today, March 5, 1953 (January 20, 1953 in the lunar calendar), Stalin passed away. Joseph Stalin On March 5, 1953, Stalin, the great Marxist-Leninist, an outstanding leader of the Soviet Party and state and the international communist and workers 'movements, passed away. After Stalin's death, the mourning activities held in China were no less than those held in the Soviet Union: Chairman Mao Zedong issued an order: from March 7 to 9, flags across the country will be lowered at half-staff to express condolences; during the mourning period, all industrial, mining, enterprises, troops, agencies, schools and people's organizations across the country will stop banquets and entertainment activities. Chairman Mao personally went to the Soviet Embassy to express his condolences. On March 8, Premier Zhou Enlai led a party and government delegation of our country to Moscow to attend the funeral. The capital held a memorial meeting on March 9, and Zhu De delivered a eulogy. Stalin was born on December 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker who was born as a farmer and his mother was the daughter of a serf. In 1888, Stalin entered Gori Church Primary School and in 1894 he entered Tbilisi Orthodox Middle School. He participated in revolutionary activities at the age of 15 and became a member of the Social Democratic Labor Party in 1898. In 1899, he was expelled from school for engaging in revolutionary activities and embarked on the path of a professional revolutionary. In 1905, Stalin became the revolutionary leader of the Caucasus region. In December of that year, he represented the Caucasian Party Organization at the first Bolshevik Conference. At the meeting, he met Lenin for the first time. In 1906 and 1907, Stalin attended the Fourth and Fifth Congresses of the Social Democratic Labor Party. He united around Lenin and fought against the Mensheviks. In the six years that followed, he was arrested six times by the tsarist government. In January 1912, the Sixth Congress of the Social Democratic Labor Party decided to expel the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks became an independent revolutionary party-the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks). Stalin was elected as a member of the Central Committee. He was still in exile. When he learned the news, he immediately escaped from exile and was appointed by the Central Committee to Petersburg to preside over the establishment of the Central Organ Newspaper Pravda. In May 1917, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party established the Politburo, and Stalin was elected as a member of the Politburo to guide the work of the Petrograd Party Committee. During the October Revolution, he was elected to the revolutionary military headquarters that led the uprising. Under Lenin's leadership, he actively participated in organizing the armed uprising in Petrograd and made meritorious service for the victory of the October Socialist Revolution. Stalin was an outstanding strategist. After the October Revolution, domestic and foreign reactionaries launched a crazy attack on the young Soviet state. During the period of opposition to foreign armed intervention and the Civil War, Stalin was a member of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Soviet Republic. Lenin sent him many times to command operations on the most critical front. In the battle to defend Tsarizin, and in the battle to crush Judenich, Denikin and the Polish aristocrats, he had great wisdom and courage and established achievements in defending the Soviet regime. The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet awarded him the Red Flag Medal for this. In January 1924, Lenin died, and Stalin swore on behalf of the whole party to realize Lenin's legacy. In May 1924, at the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of Russia (Bolshevik). The congress continued to elect him as the post of general secretary. From then on, until his death on March 5, 1953, he served as the supreme leader of the Soviet Party and state. During his tenure as the highest leader of the Soviet party and state, Stalin made outstanding contributions and made immortal contributions in the anti-fascist war of World War II and in the socialist economic construction of the Soviet Union. However, with the victory of socialist construction in the Soviet Union and the improvement of his personal prestige, he forgot Lenin's criticism of him, overestimated himself, and appreciated the cult of personality, so he also made some serious mistakes. Stalin is the author of: "The Complete Works of Stalin","On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union","Problems in Marxism and Linguistics","Problems in Socialist Economy of the Soviet Union", etc. Stalin's remains were followed by Khrushchev, Berya, Malinkov Burganin, Voloshilov, Kaganovic (from left), Beijing Stalin, and portraits of people who attended Stalin's memorial service in 1903, Stalin (second from right in the back row) and his political prisoner who were exiled to Siberia together. His ex-wife Ekaterina was a Georgian beauty. Unfortunately, Nadja's young death restored the warmth of his family. Nadja and her son Vasily Stalin visited a farm in 1934 with their daughter and his presumed successor Kirov. Kirov was assassinated in the same year Stalin's second son Vasily and his sons and daughters lined up to bid farewell to Stalin's body. A long line of people lined up for six miles to bid farewell to Stalin's body.