Gifting the Un to Stalin- c6, Stalin-rothschild- 17.7.08
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23 1 Stalinwas born Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on 21 December 1879 in Gori, the Republic of Georgia, 40 miles west of bilisi. He was nicknamed ‘Soso’ as a child. Like Hitler, Stalin’s family history is full of cover stories – layer upon layer. 1 Stalin’s mother, Katerine Meladze, was a peasant girl who had been taught to read and write. She came with strong aspirat ions. Her father died before she was born and she was raised by her uncle Petre Khomuridze. Her extended family were craftsmen and innkeepers with connections to merchants and a few aristocrats, so Stalin had a prominent godfather. At 16, Katerine Meladze 2 married Besarion Dzhugashvili (22) a self-employed cobbler, which then came under the banner ‘artisan’ – one step above ‘peasant’. Unlike most Georgian artisans at that time, Besarion was able to read and write. Teir first two sons died in infancy. Te ir third son Iosef/Stalin was born when Katerine was 22 and Besarion (nicknamed Beso) was 28. As a third son, by Georgian and Russian tradition, Stalin was considered a gift from God, but he was accident-prone, so was rarely free of physical pain. He had measles, scarlet fever and smallpox, which left him badly scarred and earnt him the name Chopura (Poxy). He was then run over by a carriage and got blood poisoning which withered his left arm and shoulder. In 1890, his legs were run over by another carriage and he got another n ickname, G eza (Crook ed). 1 Katerine Meladze was also known as ‘Ekaterina Georgievna Geladze-Djugashvili’ (also ‘Gheladze Dzhugashvili’) and was nicknamed ‘Keke’. 2 Stalin’s names were ‘Ioseb Jughashvili’ or ‘Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili’ (‘Son of a Jew’). His affectionate childhood names were ‘Soso’ and ‘Soselo’. He was called ‘Chopura’ (Poxy, aged 6) and ‘Geza’ (Crooked, aged 11), ‘Ryaboi’ (police nickname for pockmarked face, so Stalin wore makeup, especially for photos); ‘Kochba’ (the leader of the Jews who lead an uprising against the Romans); ‘Koba’ (a hero in the romance novel Nunuby Kazbek, 1899–1913); ‘J. Besoshvili’ (son of Besarion, which he used for his journalism in 1 906); ‘Oganess Vartanovich Totomyants’ ; ‘Chizhikov’; ‘David’; ‘ Ivanov’; ‘Ivanovich’; ‘Nizheradze’; ‘Vassily’; ‘Vassilyev’; ‘K. K ato’ (his first wife’s knickname); ‘K. St.’; ‘Ko.’; ‘Stalin’ (Man of Steel, which Lenin gave him in 1912/3); and ‘Joseph Stalin’ (Jewish for “Prince of Steel”). Stalin was variously born on 6 December 1878 and 21 December 1879. When Russia changed from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar on 14 February 1 91 8, 13 days were added. T hese calendar changes o ccurred across the glob e between 1582 and 1923 and also involved adding another year by some countries, principally the British Empire. No one seems to know what happened to this extra year, but it was used for historial obfuscation, especially of foreign British agents.
Gifting the Un to Stalin- c6, Stalin-rothschild- 17.7.08
