Labels:text | human face | man | clothing | screenshot | poster | military uniform OCR: WORLD WAR II LEADERS OVERVIEW HITLER MUSSOLINI AXIS AGGRESSION STALIN ALLIED COMEBACK CHURCHILL LEADERS Long-term Communist dictator of the U.S.S.R ., Joseph Stalin JOSEPH STALIN (1879-1953) Although Germany's invasion of 1941 caught Stalin unawares, he rallied the Soviet Union behind him in a DE GAULLE HUMAN COST war that cost millions of casualties but awarded him ultimate victory. An astute politician, he outwitted the Allies to secure postwar control over Eastern Europe. ROOSEVELT CHRONOLOGY