People
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Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub Иван Никитович Кожедуб
Top Allied fighter ace who scored 64 victories and was never downed by an enemy
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1920–1991
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Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Василий Иосифович Сталин
Lieutenant general of aviation and founder of Soviet ice hockey, the leader's son
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1921–1962
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Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya Зоя Анатольевна Космодемьянская
The first woman Hero of the Soviet Union, the 18-year-old partisan who cried 'Stalin will come!' from the gallows
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1941
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Sutyagin Николай Васильевич Сутягин
The Soviet ace with MiG Alley’s highest score
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1923–1986
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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Светлана Иосифовна Аллилуева
Stalin's only daughter and the Kremlin's first insider witness to defect to the West
Literature and arts
1926–2011
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Leonid Moiseyevich Sabsovich Леонид Моисеевич Сабсович
The economist who blueprinted Stalin's accelerated industrialization, standard-bearer of the 'socialist city' Urbanists
Scholarship and theory
?–1938
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Genrikh Lyushkov Генрих Люшков
Far East NKVD chief, the highest-ranking defector
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1900/1902–1945
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Vagan Grigoryevich Grigoryan Ваган Григорьевич Григорьян
Armenian party functionary who managed the international communist movement in late Stalinism
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1901/1902–1983
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Pang Hak-se Пан Хак Се
Founder of North Korea's state security and enforcer of its political repression
Security, intelligence and policing · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions
?–1992