ICM "Joseph Stalin" in 1/35 scale

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• published: 06 Jul 2015
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Like this video or Stalin will haunt you in your sleep! Kidding, i do not care for sure and won´t send anyone to the Gulags who sends me silly comments. For a different project (Don Camillo and Peppone) i purchased the ICM figure set called "Stalin & co" in 1/35 scale because i needed a certain head from this set. I do not have really a use for the figures, except Stalin, who would make an interesting stand-alone piece. At least thats what i thought. Now i finally got round to paint him (took me one afternoon) and i enjoyed it. I have to say that i really admire ICM for their quality when it comes to figures. They are definately better than most Dragon or Tamiya figures out there and also a lot more beneficial. I advice anyone to take a closer look at the rather new figure sets from ICM (beware of the old ones though!). Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878 –5 March 1953, birth surname: Dzhugashvili) was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Stalin was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution, alongside Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Sokolnikov and Bubnov.Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin's criticisms (in the postscript of his testament) and expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 onward. Under Stalin's rule, the concept of "Socialism in One Country" became a central tenet of Soviet society, contrary to Leon Trotsky's view that socialism must be spread through continuous international revolutions. He replaced the New Economic Policy introduced by Lenin in the early 1920s with a highly centralised command economy, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization that resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrial power. However, the economic changes coincided with the imprisonment of millions of people in Gulag labour camps. The initial upheaval in agriculture disrupted food production and contributed to the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932–33, known as the Holodomor in Ukraine. Between 1934 and 1939 he organized and led a massive purge (known as "Great Purge") of the party, government, armed forces and intelligentsia, in which millions of so-called "enemies of the Soviet people" were imprisoned, exiled or executed. In a period that lasted from 1936 to 1939, Stalin instituted a campaign against enemies within his regime. Major figures in the Communist Party, such as the Old Bolsheviks, Leon Trotsky, and most of the Red Army generals, were killed after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the government and Stalin. In the years following his death, Stalin and his regime have been condemned on numerous occasions, most notably in 1956 when his successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced his legacy and initiated a process of de-Stalinization. He remains a controversial figure today, with many regarding him as a tyrant. However, popular opinion within the Russian Federation is mixed. The exact number of deaths caused by Stalin's regime is a subject of debate, but it is widely agreed upon that it is on the order of millions. (Wikipedia) I do not own the rights for the music in this video. Music: "Red September" by Terry Divine King