Stalin
they say he knew only two punishments for disobedience quick death by shooting or slow death by starvation, and overwork. He may justly be numbered 2 of 3 worst men who ever lived; outdoing even Hitler whom he admired and who admired him. Joseph was not an impressive figure, not the sort of man you’d notice in a crowd. Simply dressed, he wore a khaki military tunic and trousers, stuffed into high black leather boots. He was short with a low forehead, close-cropped black hair and a drooping mustache. Deep pockmarks covered his face. When he smiled which was not very often, he flashed gold-platted teeth, though others were blackened by rot. His complexion was sallow, the result of ...
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a bad brawl. His town was a very aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. Young Joseph was the one and only survivor out of his four siblings.
In 1888 began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian, and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the T’bilis Theological Seminary in the Georgian capital in 1894. began his studies at the seminary as a devout believer in Orthodox Christianity. He was soon exposed to the radical ideas of fellow students, however, and began to read illegal literature based on the works of German political philosopher Karl Marx. In 1899, just as he was about to graduate, he gave up his religious education to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. While employed as and accountant in T’bilisi, spread Marxist propaganda among railway workers on behalf of the local Social Democratic Labor Party organization. After moving to the seaport of Bat’umi, ...
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of the Russian monarchy in the February (or March, in the New Style calendar) phase of the Russian Revolution. He went to Petrograd (later Leningrad; now Saint Petersburg), where he became a member of the party’s Central Committee bureau. He then asserted editorial control over the party newspaper, Pravda (Truth).
Although he did not play a prominent role in the Bolshevik takeover of the government in October (November, New Style), became a member of the new government’s Soviet (Council) of People’s Commissars (Russian acronym, Sovnarkom), heading the Commissariat for Nationality Affairs. Given the vital importance of nationality issues at a time when the Bolsheviks were trying to ...
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