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[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Evolution|Evolutionary]] ideas significantly influenced the thinking of the nineteenth and twentieth-century [[Communism|communists]].<ref>http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1804/</ref><ref>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=276</ref><ref>http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1914/</ref> The [[atheism|atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]] was greatly influenced by the work of [[Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin who was also an atheist]].<ref>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=276</ref><ref>http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1804/</ref><ref>http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1914/</ref> Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to atheistic [[communism]] is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM</ref>

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'''Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ''' (Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли), better known as '''Joseph Stalin''' (December 6, 1878 - March 5, 1953) was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] ([[CPSU]]) from 1922 until his death. The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of [[Lenin|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's]] closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel,  held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later re-named Tsaritsen [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].

'''Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ''' (Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли), better known as '''Joseph Stalin''' (December 6, 1878 - March 5, 1953) was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] ([[CPSU]]) from 1922 until his death. The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of [[Lenin|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's]] closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel,  held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later re-named Tsaritsen [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].