“I listened to the episodes about Joseph Stalin February 2022. It literally hit me so hard and changed my life. I’ve become quite interested in his life, and I’ve even read his mother’s (Keke Geladze) small book, and I’m reading a book now called “Young Stalin.” Stalin defied odds at all corners.
• he was an ethnic Georgian who ruled over a multi-ethnic nation in which Georgians were a minority.
• he was in the background of the Bolsheviks. As the secretary, his job wasn’t that glamorous. He was so overshadowed. But he rose up.
• he developed the USSR at a huge cost.
• he escaped Siberia on exile many times - 6 times in fact.
• he got away with killing 700,000 or so high ranking military officials.”
Tangent1.57 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/16/24