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Quotes About Iosif

And yet, within a mere decade of Stolypin's demise, the Georgian-born Russian Social Democrat Iosif "Koba" Jughashvili, a pundit and agitator, would take the place of the sickly Romanov heir and go on to forge a fantastical dictatorial authority far beyond any effective power exercised by imperial Russia's autocratic tsars or Stolypin. Calling that outcome unforeseeable would be an acute understatement.
~ Stephen Kotkin
an unlikely champion of minority rights. His name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili – Stalin ('man of steel')
~ Niall Ferguson