Posted on 05/12/2007 4:38:33 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In February 1917, the Russian Revolution started in faraway St Petersburg. The Tsar abdicated and on March 12, Stalin arrived in the city. In the summer of that year, he started his affair with another 16-year-old schoolgirl, Nadya Alliluyeva, who became his second wife."Stalin's coldness and rudeness toward his young wife contributed to her deep depression, and on the night of November 8, 1932, she killed herself. Stalin did not attend the funeral, and lived out the rest of his life alone." -- The Commissar Vanishes by David King (p 115)
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