#342 | Josef Stalin | The Grey Blur
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Stalin - The Story of Stalin's Inhumanity
Stalin was born Joseph Visarino Jugashvili in Georgia, which was then part of the Russian Empire. When he was seven years old, Stalin caught smallpox and was left with acne scarring and a deformed left arm. He turned his back on religion, becoming an atheist, and by 1899 he had been thrown out of the seminary because he didn't show up for his exams. In December of 1899, when he was 21, Stalin took his first and only non-political job, working as a clerk in the Tiflis Observatory. His son Jakov tried to escape from Sachinhausen concentration camp during World War II but was shot dead before reaching
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