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Josef Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. The following recording in Russian is his final speech (followed by an English translation) given at the 19th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952, a year before his death.

Joseph Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953. Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. The following recording (in Russian) is from a speech Stalin made on November 7, 1941, in the midst of World War II.

Hear Ari Weinzweig, founder of the Zingerman's wildly successful restaurants and food-service companies, discuss its humble beginnings in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as principles on customer service and handling customer complaints, measuring service, and hiring tips.