JOSEF VISSARIONOVICH DJUGASHVILI OR JOESPH STALIN WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 18TH 1878, IN THE SMALL TOWN OF GORI, GEORGIA, WHICH THEN WAS PART OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. JOSEF WAS RAISED POOR AND A ONLY CHILD. HIS FATHER WAS A SHOEMAKER AND ALCOHOLIC WHO BEAT HIS SON, AND HIS MOTHER WAS A LAUNDRESS. AS A CHILD, JOSEF CONTRACTED SMALL POX, WHICH LEFT LIFELONG FACIAL SCARS. GROWING UP, JOSEF ADMIRED A FICTIONAL CHARACTER NAMED KOBA, A MAN WHO WAS BRUTAL TO HIS ENEMIES BUT GOOD TO HIS FRIENDS, EVENTUALLY JOSEF TOOK OVER THIS IDENTITY, BOTH THE NAME, AND THE PERSONALTY. GROWING UP JOSEF WAS VERY RELIGIOUS, HE PLANNED TO BECOME A PRIEST. JOSEF WENT INTO A THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL TO BECOME A PRIEST. WHEN JOSEFS DAD, BESARION DISCOVERED THAT HIS SON WAS ACCEPTED INTO THE SCHOOL HE WAS FURIOUS HE WENT ON A RAMPAGE AND SMASHED THE WINDOWS IN A LOCAL BAR AND ATTACKED THE TOWNS POLICE CHIEF. JOSEF FATHER WAS BANISHED FROM THE TOWN AND ABANDONED HIS FAMILY. JOSEF STILL JOINED THE SCHOOL ONLY TO SEE THAT THE PRIESTS WERE CRUEL PEOPLE, WHO STOLE FROM THEIR STUDENTS AND TREATED THEM LIKE RATS. JOSEF ESCAPED FROM THE SCHOOL, AND TOOK UP A INTEREST INTO POLITICS. HE JOINED A REVOLUTIONARY GROUP AGAINST THE CORRUPTION OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. AFTER A BRUTAL REVOLUTION, THE SOVIET UNION WAS FORMED, WITH VLADAMIR LENIN STANDING SUPREME AS JOSEF AS HIS RIGHT HAND MAN. LENIN DIED 2 YEARS LATER, LEAVING A NOTE NOT TO LET STALIN RULE THE UNION, KNOWING HE HAD A EVIL SIDE. JOSEF FOUND THE LETTER, DESTROYED IT, MANEUVERING HIMSELF INTO THE LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION. TAKING ON THE NAME STALIN, "MAN OF STEEL", JOSEPH STALIN.
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