Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin, also spelled Josef Stalin, was a communist dictator of the Soviet Union. He served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (PROSE: History 101)

It was said that he liked to listen to the sound of mad dogs barking. (PROSE: Endgame) The Tenth Doctor mentioned him when assessing the strangeness of England in 1953 when he and Rose visited for the coronation, comparing it to the occurrences in Russia during his reign. (TV: ''The Idiot's Lantern)

Behind the scenes

 * According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information, in an alternate universe where all of history happened at once, Stalin played live chess with Cleopatra.
 * He was played by Brian Cox in an episode of Thirty-Minute Theatre, David Bradley in an episode of Theatre Night, Bernard Kay in an episode of Screen Two and Simon Russell Beale in the play Collaborators.
 * In Before the Flood, a propaganda poster displaying Stalin was seen in the mock Soviet town of Краснодар, with his name in Russian below. However, a connect between the two was never formally made.