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The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

'Pock Marked' and 'Crimped'

Joseph's legs were shattered by a runaway carriage when he was 12. He spent months out of school recovering and had to walk with an awkward, sideways gait. His dad kidnapped him at several points so that he could learn to be a shoemaker. But joseph did not want to be a Shoemaker which is what his dad wanted him to ea i popiaa. So after his dad kidnapped him, he returned home and went back to school. And the priests and tiflet yet sisir. The doctors treated him for free. Or ignadish vili was quietly paying the bills. Kekes her son said later, also called in a village

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