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The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Secret Reading Circle

Everybody wants to be the special boy who does the special thing. It is a powerful human need. By the late 18 nineties, stallin had gone from romantic poet to marxus fanatic. His reading had convinced him that the revolutionary proletariat alone is destined by history to liberate mankind and bring the world happiness. After a couple o years of diligent reading, joseph got frustrated by the fact that all his group did was read. He complained to the leader of the reading circle, a guy named dev diarini, and insisted that the group get involved in something real, something violent. The priest won, black spot, marched stalin back to his room and forced the boys to soak

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