Georgian Crisis : Stalin’s First Break

Until Lenin chose Stalin out of the ranks of mid level insignificance, he had been a successful train robber and, reportedly an agent for the English.

A humorous bar bet asks what major background item was common to Mao, Fidel, and Joseph Dzhugashvili [Stalin-steel] ? The answer is that all three attended Jesuit Seminaries. Stalin’s father was a violent drunk bootmaker in Georgia. Mom sent him to the Jesuits for his safety, where he learned not religious piety, but the Jesuit penchant for extremely efficient organization. He also picked up the habit of elimination every second layer of subordinates each 3 years or so to relieve himself of the burden of a successor. Recall that when he died, a troika was required to fill his boots.

How did Lenin hear of Stalin? It was what Soviets called the “nationalities question”. Lenin was attracted to Stalin’s severe repressive measures. they worked. Later, the entire Politburo learned of his greater intentions—total domination. The top leaders in Russia were predominately ethnic Jews with Russifed names [eg. Kamenev, Zinoviev]. Their preoccupation was making brilliant theoretical oratory, disdaining the mundane. Stalin quietly accepted the hated duties of party regulation and police affairs—and killed them all.

Serge Ordzhonikidze was Stalin’s proxy in Georgia. His instruction to Serge, according to Colonel General Dmitri Volkogonov [chief historian of the red army] in his book “Triumph And Tragedy” was : “when disciplining locals use boots, you kick a man and he will find his teeth next week” [IR's paraphrase].

It appears that Putin has similar methods. By the way, punishing NATO for having separated Bosnia from their genocidal pals the Serbs.

NOTE: This 1943 poster reads “forward to the destruction of the German occupiers and driving them from the boundaries of our motherland”.