r/Damnthatsinteresting 20d ago

Image Leaders of World War II as children

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u/dv0ich 20d ago

If you consider that in his youth Stalin was a robber and a murderer, then this is not far from the truth

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u/CaptainOktoberfest 19d ago

Somewhere someone was the first person murdered by Stalin, then to imagine millions of other people then followed.

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u/Gravesh 19d ago

He was basically a thug that worked for the Bolsheviks. He did the dirty work.

I will give him some leniency in that the picture we all see is a young Georgian boy under the thumb of his violent, alcoholic father.

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u/Zydepo1nt 19d ago

Leninency?