On top of everything else wrong with him, Stalin was a fucking nerd!* https://t.co/tD9j14NXKh
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He was a nerd though. Large private library and most books full of marginalia.
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Given the base they were starting from was Tsarist Russia, there was a lot more room for literacy advocacy.
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He did read 300 pages of theory a day but the pages were just the same one line over and over again: "All work and no play makes Jack a Stakhanovite."
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eh, it's possible. i read 301 pages of theory a day, so i would know
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Fun fact: Stalin could finish 8 minute abs in 6 minutes
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I remember Sebag Montefiore retelling the anecdote about how young Stalin and other kids from the seminary slipped away to get drunk and party. Stalin got bored and was later found reading and making corrections in Napoleon's memoirs.
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