dumbfoundry

They're kind, gentle but they are mass murderers:

HE could be very entertaining,” Stalin's niece Kira Allilueva told biographer Robert Service in 1998.

The dictator had her jailed in his last round of purges, after World War II, but she still remembered how kind he had been to her when she was a little girl, how he took her on his knee and sang songs to her and that he had a fine singing voice.

Not only that, but he wrote limpid poetry in Georgian as a youth, he read Dostoevsky, and his subordinates saw him as a considerate boss.

He also had millions of people killed, which is why, until Service's recent book, Stalin: A Biography, people were reluctant to write about his human side. [...]

I thought it said limpet poetry. Which could be good.

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