Born Quote by Keith Gessen
“Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose relationship with Joseph's mother, Keke Geladze, came to an end when the boy was around six years old.”
![“[Father Dmitry] “lived through collectivization, the crushing of the 80 percent of Russians that were peasants. He served as a soldier in World War Two, when millions of peasants died defending the government that had crushed them. He spent eight years in the gulag, the network of labour camps…” quote by Oliver Bullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/20d/oliver-bullough-45178_parenting_father-dmitry-lived-through-collectiviza_2046669.jpg)
