Joseph Stalin (Cinco De Mayo)

Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878 - 4 August 1946) was a Russian fascist dictator and the President and Premier of Russia from 1930 until he committed suicide during the Battle of Moscow in August of 1946. Stalin was a brutal dictator who committed acts of ethnic cleansing, civilian massacres and war crimes during the Second World War, in which the New Russian Empire, under his leadership, fought alongside fascist France, Italy and Spain as well as China against the Central Powers of Britain, Germany, the United States, Japan and Austria. Unlike charismatic fascists such as De Gaulle, Petain, Franco and Mussolini in his allied states, Stalin consolidated power through purges and political maneuvering in the lead-up to World War Two, which he initiated with his invasion of the Ukraine in March of 1940.