Talk:Joseph Stalin

Warfarin poisoning
I know this topic was already broached a few years ago on the TP. Currently the article states that "According to a report published in The New York Times, Stalin was poisoned with warfarin by his own Politburo members." While this story is supported by some medical sources (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524003/), another more recent medical analysis published in 2023 claims that "It appears highly unlikely that Stalin was poisoned by warfarin or a similar class of anti-coagulant." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105823/) It might be worth pointing out that the Warfarin theory is at least disputed, although perhaps this is best left to the "Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin" page. 2A00:23C7:9992:E701:8814:AAAD:270:C5D8 (talk) 21:33, 19 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I think this should all be moved to the Death article.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The NYT report actually only teasers the book Stalin's Last Crime by Brent and Naumov. So at least the thesis should be correctly attributed to those two authors. Assayer (talk) 09:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support a move to the Death article. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Should the "death cause" in the infobox be kept? It seems worth mentioning. SavagePanda845 (talk) 22:48, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Georgian-born in the lede
Why should “Georgian-born” not be included in the lede? “Soviet” was not his nationality by birth. Other leaders of the WW2 era all have their nationalities in the lede of their articles such as Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini and so on. Why should Joseph Stalin’s nationality be excluded from the lede? “Soviet” included way more than just Georgians. Erroneously people think that Soviet equals Russian which was not the case at all. Stalin was proud of his Georgian roots and there’s no reason to exclude his nationality from the lede of the article about him. QueenCoatsie (talk) 15:48, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree, but look at the archives: this has been discussed many times.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:49, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * A clear consensus for "Soviet" was reached in the last discussion at Talk:Joseph Stalin/Archive 24, where editors correctly cited MOS:ETHNICITY as a reason that his Georgian origin should only be introduced in the second paragraph of the lead. — Goszei (talk) 17:03, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Typo found, June 2024
"he rarely left Moscow unless to go a dacha for holiday" to go to a dacha, right?

Under personal life and characteristics.
 * Fixed; thank you. Antandrus (talk) 17:52, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Too long
The too long tag has been there a year; it's 20,000 words readable prose size. With Winston Churchill, it's the highest profile article that is too long - WP:Article Size. There are different ways of trimming but it needs to be trimmed. Most or all of the main child/sub articles have been set-up already so it's simply a case of summarising them here, Tom B (talk) 09:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Moved paragraphs to relevant pages and trimmed content to be a little more precise. Abc747 (talk) 15:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Abc747, thanks for that, but please don't remove the tag just yet - more is needed still. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:18, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, sorry, just trying to be helpful! Abc747 (talk) 17:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Yall should make an article series on lenin, stalin, and krushchev
Brezhnev, gorbachev have one. why not these three? theyre more nottable than brezhenv and goirbachev 108.27.60.251 (talk) 15:52, 12 July 2024 (UTC)