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"The man who turned the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at unimaginable human cost (Joseph Stalin)." "Stalin was born into a dysfunctional family in a poor village in Georgia (Joseph Stalin)." Permanently scarred from a childhood bout with smallpox and having a mildly deformed arm, Stalin always felt unfairly treated by life, and thus developed a strong, romanticized desire for greatness and respect, combined with a shrewd streak of calculating cold-heartedness towards those who had maligned him. "He always felt a sense of inferiority before educated intellectuals, and particularly distrusted them (Joseph Stalin)."
Sent by his mother to the seminary in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), the capital of Georgia, to study to become a priest, the young Stalin never completed his education, and was instead soon completely drawn into the city's active revolutionary circles. "Never a fiery intellectual polemicist or orator like Lenin or Trotsky, Stalin specialized in the......

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