"He wants to turn the whole world upside down. If you hadn't taken him to school he'd be a craftsmen, now he's in prison. I'll kill such a son with my own hands, he's disgraced me."
— Joseph Stalin

January 1, 1970

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Anti-imperialistsAtheistsGeneral Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionSoviet premiersPeople from Georgia (country)
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Stalin's father Besarion Jughashvili to Stalin's mother as she went to visit their son in prison in 1902, as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore