Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, aka Joseph Stalin, was born on December 18, 1879, in the peasant village of Gori, Georgia. Stalin's father was a cobbler and his Mother was a washerwoman. As a child, Stalin was widely regarded as weak by his counterparts. At the age of seven, he contracted smallpox, which left his face scarred. A few years later, he injured his left arm, leaving it slightly deformed. The other kids in the village treated him with cruelty and inferiority. Due to his treatment, Joseph began a quest for respect and power; however, along with this quest he developed a cruel streak for those he disliked.
In 1888, Stalin was enrolled in a church school. He excelled and by 1894 gained a scholarship to Tiflis Theological Seminary. Within a year, Stalin came into contact with Messame Dassy, which was a secret Georgian secession organization. The organization had a strong affinity for socialism and introduced Stalin to the writings of Karl Marx and Lenin. The rest is history.
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This introduction of Stalin is helpful for me to understand where he came from and how he became who he was during World War II and the Cold War.
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