<h2>He served as the General Secretary of the Central</h2><h2>Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet</h2><h2>Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years</h2><h2>following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he became the</h2><h2>dictator of the Soviet Union, by manipulating and</h2><h2>terrorizing others in order to destroy his opponents.</h2>
