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So long as he loved his mum; Josef Stalin.(Biography)
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Tender Stalin with daughter
Attempting to put a human face on him
IN HIS still unequalled 1991 biography, "Stalin: Breaker of Nations", Robert Conquest found that there was "something in [Stalin's] character best thought of as an absence of life in its fullest sense." He called the Soviet dictator a "vast, dark figure looming over the century", defined mainly by a capacity for murder and deceit. A biographer often became attached to a subject, Mr Conquest said, but with Stalin it was "probably impossible to have that sort of sympathetic relationship".
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