He defeated a White Army at Tsaritsyn and would later take action against "fascist elements" in the NKVD.
Debate exists over how his namesake note was received by Konrad Adenauer. Intelligence provided by Donald MacLean caused him to carry out one action and as a young man he wrote for the Brdzola. Later, he engaged in a power struggle, initially allying himself with Gregory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. As ruler, he found himself threatened by the popularity of Sergei Kirov. He defeated a White Army at Tsaritsyn and would later take action against "fascist elements" in the NKVD. He relied on his chief of staff Georgi Zhukov, ordered a scorched earth policy during the Great Patriotic War, and later ordered a blockade of Berlin. FTP, name this brutal leader, who succeeded Vladimir Lenin as General Secretary of the Soviet Union. 
Debate exists over how his namesake note was received by Konrad Adenauer.
Joseph {Stalin} (accept Iosif {Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili})