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Stalin's History in the Tiflis Seminary
Stalin attended the Tiflis Seminary before he discovered Marxism and Ennisom. He's an excellent student, reads a lot of books including eventually underground literature or forbidden literature that circulated secretly among the students. In September 1931 when Stalin discovered that his then 73 year old history teacher from Seminary was in prison in Tiflis., he ordered Beria to release him.
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