The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the head of the Ministry of Defence who was responsible for defence of the socialist/communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1
Kliment Voroshilov
Nikolay Ilyich Podvoisky
Лев Давидович Троцкий
Michaił Frunze
Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Sov
Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)
…5 years, 322 days 2 Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) 7 May 1940 19 July 1941 1 year, 73 days 3 Marshal of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) 19 July 1941 25 February 1946 4 years, 221 days People's Commissars of the Navy (1937–1946) No. Portrait People's Commissar of the Navy…
Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Police photo of Stalin, 1902
First issue of Pravda, of which Stalin served as an early editor
Stalin in 1917 as a young People's Commissar