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Stalin is also just a Russian surname; probably craploads of them in the Moscow phone book.

Randomly googling for "Igor Stalin", I found a Facebook page and YouTube channel.

Are there famous Stalins besides the well-known tyrant? Wikipedia informs me that "The Stalin" were a Japanese punk band, and some rapper called Jovan Smith took on J. Stalin as a stage name, and an Indian politician called M. K. Stalin. All of these names are derived from the infamous dictator, though. So it's very hard to connect anything which uses that name to anything else.

"The Stalin" chose their name evidently because "Joseph Stalin is very hated by most people in Japan, so it is very good for our image." LOL, facepalm



Stalin is not a surname. It is a nom de guerre that means “man of steel”.


I see. "Nom de guerre".




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