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The Life of a Proletarian
Historians focus too much on the darker aspects of stallin's upbringing. He was beaten as a kid, how his brown had all these gigantic drunk fights,. How he was impoverished and abused. But joseph actually had like focusing on all that stuff. It's real. It's important. It's a factor in what he grew up to be. The same year his father left, joseph caught smallpox when an epidemic swept through town killing six of his godfather's children. Young stallin survived, perhaps thanks to a faith healer and his mother took him to in desperation - but his face was horribly scarred; other children nicknamed him poxy. Luckily, jose