Time Magazine named Joseph Stalin as their "Man of the Year" in 1939 for his role in leading the Soviet Union during World War II.
1. Dictators who killed a lot of people. 2. Winners of the Time Magazine Person of the Year Award (Hitler in 1938 and Stalin in 1939 & 1942)
Joseph Stalin was chosen as Time Magazine's person of the year in both 1939 and 1942. In 1939, he was chosen for his role as General Secretary of the Communist Party and head of the Soviet Union. He had oversight in the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact before Germany's Polish invasion.
Time Magazine's Man of the Year 1939 was Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union. Even more surprising to people of subsequent generations, Adolph Hitler was Time's Man of the Year 1938. See the links below for these publications and a list of Time's Man (Person) of the Year list for the 20th century.
Stalin. Darth Vader was never named Time magazine's Man of the Year.
Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact in 1939. The Soviet leader at the time was Josef Stalin.
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In 1939, Joe Louis won his third Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year Award. The next time he would win would be in 1941.
Some say it was August 23, 1939, but it was really singed in the early hours of August 24, 1939 in Moscow.
As far as Joseph Stalin was concerned, England, France and the United States had been plotting an imperialist war with Germany in the 1930's. Allied attempts in that period of time to make an alliance with the USSR were ruses. In order to protect the Soviet Union, Stalin signed the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939.
He signed a non-agression pact with Stalin in 1939, because he wanted to avoid to fight on two fronts at the same time.
Time is a weekly; there could have been 52 people on the covers, and that's ignoring the possibility that a cover could have had more than one person. Dwight D. Eisenhower was Time's Person of the Year in 1944 if that's what you meant.