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(“august 23rd”)
(“day of remembrance for victims of ‘stalinism’ + ‘nazism'”)
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(1878 – 1953)
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*march 1953*
(all-night dinner at his house with his political advisors)
(did not return from his room)
(suffered stroke that paralyzed right side of body)
(died @ ‘age 75’)
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(stood 5’ 4”)
(first ‘general secretary of the communist party’ of the soviet union’s ‘central committee’ from ‘1922’ until his death in ‘1953’)
(in the years following lenin’s death in ‘1924’, he rose to become the leader of the ‘soviet union’)
(stalin’s son ‘yakov’ (whom he had with his first wife ‘ekaterina svanidze’) shot himself because of stalin’s harshness toward him, but survived)
(it was because ‘yakov’ brought home a jewish fiancée)
(after this, stalin quipped (to whom?) “he can’t even shoot straight”)
(‘yakov’ served in the ‘red army’ during ‘world war II’ and was captured by the ‘germans’)
(they offered to exchange him for field marshal ‘friedrich paulus’, who had surrendered after ‘stalingrad’, but ‘stalin’ turned the offer down, stating “you have in your hands not only my son ‘yakov’ but millions of my sons. either you free them all or my son will share their fate”)
(afterwards, ‘yakov’ is said to have committed suicide, running into an ‘electric fence” in ‘sachsenhausen concentration camp’, where he was being held)
(ouch!)
(and i thought my old man was harsh!)
(‘yakov’ had a son ‘yevgeny’, who is recently noted for defending his grandfather’s legacy in ‘russian courts’)
(‘stalin’ was much like ‘elvis’ and ‘hitler’)
(watched all-night ‘american cowboy movies’ with his ‘associates’?!?)
(heavy drinker)
(‘georgian wine’ over ‘russian vodka’)
(and an atheist to boot!)
(born ’18 december 1878′)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥