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...fact, says Budu, Stalin thinks of himself as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. He married his first wife (Budu's Aunt Keke) in church to please his mother. When a friend felt that Stalin was spanking his son Vassily (now air commander of the Moscow military district) too severely, Stalin retorted: "I'm the father of this little brat and . . . he's going to be brought up in the Georgian fashion. I'm not going to have him turn into a ruffian-like the sons of most of our high officials...
Excerpts: "We visited the mother of Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin. A few days previously Stalin had been there. Keke, his 75-year-old mother, was friendly and in good spirits. She told us of those 'unforgettable minutes...