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Atlastthetruestorystalinslife.Pdf ( , $!aIin. like the <ounti'y he lea<la. hu been the .abject of abaoo .,.41 mloconcept\ons that hen clouded and diotorted tbe truth a\>Qut the _ and hit eouatry. Contemporary PabUobera are proud to p_t this inte.... ting. factual and inopirinl dory of a DIU ""­ YOIY ....... MruIo fear into the beam of \rio onemieo and ineIIUloo do-.otion in the hearto of thooe who love and liabt for freeoIam. CODlemporary PubJishers. p ... 5 5 8 .... _ ....... __. 12 .... 15 19 23 Two Full Pace IIIustrat\ons COPytllilbt, 1943 by DYSON CARTER .All rights reserved. No part of tbl!! book may be reproduced In any form or translated In any language. without permission In writing from the copyright owner. Published by CO~TEMPORARY PUBLISHERS 165 Selkirk Avenue Winnipeg Canada Pl'inted by Univeraal Printers, Winnipeg, Canada. Page "our [ In tho past twn YNll'i\ But th!"]"(' ifl a wny or :m~w('ring truUuully the Stalin's homeland - the ljUCatiOll: Who is Stali}]? The answer given ill _ UUiOll of Soviet Socialist 'his bool{ is baaed upon a simple fad: ltcllulJlks-has l'ccein:!d A iii/tit i~ no mure and 110 Ic~s than ,/.chat life more attention in the JU/,~ ma(/f' him; 11'JU/t hf' 11((.'1 made 1l'ifh hi.'lli/e. newspapers t han a II Stalin's life! other foreign countries combined. Just the straight life story of this man, free When you come to think of it, this is aston­ of all exaggeration and fiction, rivals the most ishing. fascinating biographies of history. Here is wild But the reason for it is simple enough. adventure and lonely banishment, warm love and The army of the U.S.S.R. succeeded after all haunting tragedy, diabolic cnemies and friends to other armies had failed-succeeded in bringing to the death. a hall the frightful blitz of the Nazi hordes. lt Fl"Om this cxtraordinary life there emel'ges in took us a long time to grasp this. And still longer perfect c1eal"lless the picture of Stalin as he is, to understand what it meant to us and to our chil- the man, the Ih'ing human being, dren. What Stalin's army did was to make possible the rescue of our Democracies from the horrors of devastation, mass mUl'(\er, starvation and rape into which the people of Europe had been plunged CI[APTER I by the Axis bm'barians. Wlwre in all the earth No wonder we became intensely curious about . • can be round a land so tho Soviet Union! _ • mysterious, so fabulously For many years we had been subjected to beautiful, so romantic many falsehoods about Soviet Russia. The events t and exciting, as the land of the last two years hav·ing given liS the b-uth of the Caucasian Moun~ about Stalin's army, we demanded the truth about tains,? Stalin's country, Stalin's people. On the map you will see this region lying north Now, what about Stalin himself? of Persia and Turl,ey. It is the southel'llmost Who is this man, Stalin? part of Russia, and separates the Black Sea from A short while ago he was held up to us as a the Caspian Sea. Great mountain chains span it beast in human form; a stupid, ruthless dictator from coast to coast. who murdel'ed evcn his friends. Some men did Deep in the heart of the Caucasus is the coun~ not hesitate to aSSUl'e liS that Stalin ruled by try called Georgia. Pel"ilaps you have never even bl'utality and that his people were praying for hem·d its name. Yet it was known far and wide release. in times before the Bible was written. Now we are told the most astounding contra~ Here in Georgia is Mount Ararat, the highest dictions of all this. It is disclosed that Stalin ]Jeak in Europe. Legend tells us that Noah's Ark personally directed some of the most brilliant rested on this towcring summit when divine wrath maneuvers of the Red Army. Statesmen who have sent the Flood to engulf the ancient world. Twelve met Stalin say that he is highly educated, quick hundred years before C)wist the Georgian people witted, stl'aight~fot"wat'(l. We are told that Stalin had a civilization that was l'espected by the cul~ in privatc life is very fond of children and that tUl'cd Grecks. youngstel's love to talk and laugh with him. Tens of millions of people in the Soviet Union look Who are these Georgians'l upon Stalin with feelings far removed from hate Their origin is a mystery because they estab· and fear. lished themselves in the Caucasus at a time so In spite of all that has been said about this remote that historical record has been lost. Ages man-for and against him-we still do not know ago the Georgians, a pure white race, were called who he is. Stalin, the person, is an absolute mys· "Iberians." This was the name given also to tery to liS. ancient Spanial'ds, and so there is a possibility One might think that after all the evil things that the two peoples were in some way linked in said of Stalin, and now all the lay ish compliments pre-historic times. At any rate for more than two paid to him, it would be impossible to get a true, thousand years the Georgians have maintained a impartial picturc of thc man. Im)lOSsible it would distinct, almost pm·e nationality. This is remark­ be, indeed, if we thed to ~ce Stalin through the able, for the Caucasus region (Tl'ans-Caucasia) eyes of other peoplC'. has been since time imnwmorial a cradle of races, STALIN·S LIF'E Page Five This time the }ilt!(' tuwn W;.lS ehnSC'll for one for him. a liff' h{'yond llw 11!l\"('rty of Gori. Her of the fljwning Stl'Ill'S in a tl'V!l1C1H\OUS rll'ama. A hll~hal1d \\ or\;r'd liard Hlid sill' lH'n:;clf hat! tn arid drama that would one nay move on to the ,,·orld's to the family in("ome by .... isiting the homes of the stage, to shalw the t'arth and its fiY(~ continents rich, where she wal:ihed tiothcs and bali.Cd bread. with the shouts of millions of marching feet, And there \\1\S quitp HllOt}W1" nason fol' Kather­ marching not to war but to build peace out of a ine's amhition. ZOZI) had a weak left arm. It dream! l'Cef'llwd unlilwJ.v thai he conld en:r take up his 1n GOl'i li\"('c1 a sllOemaJ.;er. His uame was father's tmlil'. 80 it \\:lS g\'ncl"ally ugreed in Cori Vissal'io Juga~h\"ili. lIe 'made h, (lnler the famed that little Zow \\ !lull! be educated for the priest­ Caucasian riding i)()ots, and he was a splendid hoori. At an ('arl..,. 3g't' he was admitted to Ow craftsman. In his youth Vissario had \)cen quiLe parish s(.'hool. an adventurer. It was rumored that he h'ld kid- Yt'tIl·s afll'l'wanls the man Stalin was to re­ 11aped his beautiful wife Katherine, who was not (::111 tht, IHIPPY thildhood of the boy Zozo. Sur('ly, a Georgian at all but an Osseline. The Ossetines what mOl'(! thrilling place could there be than arc a mountain clan:it:; intelligent, JlI'oud and fierce Gnri? l\fagllific~11t Sct'Ul'ry, J'f)ml.mtic adventure as the people of Georgia, so it is not improbable storie:) tliid by n1ountailH'eJ"s, daring brigands who that. Vissal'io had to wjn his bride ill the most df,ji("d tht! Cr.ar's :-;nldil'rs, ('xci li ng" tdps uy raft I'Omantic fashion of all. 011 till' Kunt riv('r, wild awl liaullting music at But that was long ugo. l!ll' festivals. Tll/!s(' Lhings Zozo ]'l1ew. Lire had since U1('11 b(!cum(! sOl'l'uwfui in Gori. lie abo loww thal Ccol'gia was under the heel The Hussians wel'e rulr)':-;. C('orgifl)ls had nevel' or Lhe CZIlI', and that the LlSllrpt!r:; wcre becomillg leamcd to bow their heads even to native princes, CWl" mOJ"(' iJ)f;oit'ni. Many a man of God thought­ and aiLhol1gn the Czar's representatives \vcre fully fing'cl"e(l his claggt'l' in those days, and lis­ cal'eful not io f.m the smolflering Caucasus into tened sull{'nly to the II a1' songs of the poet Shamil. a blaze of revolt the people found it hard to obey But the Czar had imported an effective weapo]] Ule foreigner's law, to complete his COlHjlH st of unlamed G{'ol'gia. Not Look at the customPl' who has just stamped a gun or a bumb. The \\"<'aj)on was Hunger. F01' into Visl:iarios' shop, You must address him as cenLuries the ltus~ian mass('s had been disciplined "Your Serene Ilighnrss." nut the fellow is just by stan"ation. 1\ow Gcorgians began to feel its an ordinary strutting Russian nolJlcmall decked pungs, out in all the silk and gold regalia of his kind. The method llsed hy the Itussians was a fa­ Vissario is ill at case unlil IIis Serene Highness milial' une. Theil' business men smelled rich prof­ begins to talk about the nc\\.-· 11air of hunting boots its in GCOl·gia.
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