Joseph Stalin (World of Sultans)

Joseph I (Russian: Иосиф I Виссарионович, born 18 December 1878 – 1941) also known as Tsar Stalin (Russian: Царь Сталин) originally born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჟუღაშვილი) was the Emperor or Tsar of Russia, Grand Duke of Poland and King of Georgia from 1922 to 1941. He was the only ruling member of the short-lived House of Vissarionovich (considered both a historical dynasty in both Russia and Georgia), until his overthrow by Solomon Gorbunov for waging the Great Russian War.

Ethnically Georgian, Joseph grew up in the Georgian Orthodox Church. Growing up in an abusive background, Joseph was told he could never become King of Russia, and to pursue something realistic. After the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty, Joseph and other anti-Romanovs wanted no time to sieze the Imperial Russian throne, which at this point, had been moved to Kiev.

Upon siezing power, Ioseb converted to Russian Orthodoxy, and was coronated as Tsar Joseph I of Russia, with his official secular Russian name appearing as Joseph Vissarionovich. As the ruler of the Russian Empire, Tsar Joseph I worked to modernize and industrialize the Russian Empire, seeing as to how Soviet Russia was rapidly industrializing.

Joseph I however, an extreme Russophiliac, carried out pogroms and persecutions against ethnic Ukrainians, leading Symon Petliura to declare an independent Ukrainian republic. Tsar Joseph I's anti-Ukrainian views were open facts, declaring that Ukrainian was not a real language, and a barbaric dialect of Russian.

In 1936, Tsar Joseph I waged war against Soviet Russia, a war that led to failure, a weakened Imperial Russian Army falling prone to a German invasion, and his eventual overthrow by Solomon Gorbunov.