Stalin’s mustache was, in many ways, a reaction to the beards of leftist predecessors such as Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. (After Lenin’s death, Leon Trotsky wrote that, “for young people ...

Stalin’s walrus mustache never quite achieved the status of shorthand for modern barbarity as Hitler’s did, but it was an indelible part of his public image — and a target for his detractors.

After exiting and then returning to bow, they were hailed by a man in the state box, of medium height with a mustache. His name was Joseph Stalin. The crowd, following professional etiquette ...

“Stalin. Very good poet,” our guide declares ... young age – a hipster dreamboat beneath his bouffant and manicured moustache, the display would have you believe – while members of our ...