M.K. Stalin was named for Joseph Stalin, who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. M.K. Stalin’s father, former Tamil Nadu chief minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi, named his son Stalin as a tribute to the Soviet leader, who died just four days after M.K. Stalin was born.
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