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What was Joseph Stalin's monthly salary?
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was well paid as head of state.
In 1946, Stalin received a monthly salary of 2300 rubles. At that time, the dollar exchange rate was 4 rubles, and Stalin received a salary of $240 in dollars, which, with inflation, is worth $2692 today.
By 1952, Stalin's salary was 10 rubles, or $000 in today's value.
(https://m.ru24.net/smi/nesekretno-net.-mirtesen/311848223/)Also, Stalin paid a tax of 300 rubles for party membership.
The above rate is the official Central Bank rate at the time and was quite different from the free market.