Josef Stalin had nothing to do with the June 6, 1944, Normandy invasion, yet a bust of the Soviet dictator is being given a place at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. This is an unearned ...

Truman rearmed the country, was rude to Uncle Joe's ambassador, and made Joe angry. By the late 1940s hostilities between Truman and Stalin had become serious. World peace was imperiled.

Such attitudes are, mercifully, now rare. Once known genially as “Uncle Joe,” Stalin is now regularly reviled as a monster and a despot to be ranked with history’s worst. Despite this, it continues to ...

The so-called “friendship pact” between Stalin and Hitler (commonly known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) signed at midnight on August 23, 1939, only eight days before the outbreak of World ...

(See Cover) "Uncle Joe Stalin is all right—a straight shooter. It's that doublecrossing little Molotov who causes all the trouble. He's trying to cut Uncle Joe's throat." ...

And judging from the contents of his speech, the appellation has more to do with his similarities to Joseph Stalin, who was also called Uncle Joe, than the Americans who once occupied Independence ...

But this year a shadow has been cast over the festivities by a row over whether posters of Stalin can be hung in the city. Five decades after his death, Russians are still arguing over whether the ...

Restored footage shows how the Soviet Union reacted to Uncle Joe’s demise in the doc State Funeral . A crazed ... Following the smart 2017 comedy The Death of Stalin, though, ...

Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he thought ‘Uncle Joe’ — short for Joseph Stalin — would start WW-3, he replied, ...

Fifty years ago today, the most frightening man in the world lay dying in his dacha. When it was announced on 6 March 1953 that Joseph Stalin had died the previous day, he was mourned across half ...

Fifty years later to the day he decides to make a pilgrimage to Stalin's own country, Georgia, to record the ceremonies and the commemorations. ... Good Old Uncle Joe: Stalin's Corpse Turns 50.