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Joseph Stalin was born (as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) on December 18th 1878. As a child, Stalin was plagued with numerous health issues. He was born with two adjoined toes on his left foot, his face was permanently scarred by smallpox at the age of 7, and at age 12, he injured his left arm in an accident making it shorter and stiffer than the other arm. Stalin's father slid into alcoholism, which made him abusive to his family and caused his business to fail. He eventually ran away to Tiflis (Tbilisi), leaving his family behind. When Stalin was sixteen, he received a scholarship to attend the Georgian Orthodox Tiflis Spiritual Seminary in Tbilisi. Although he was a diligent student , he was expelled in 1899 for missing his final exams and being unable to pay the tuition.
In 1906, Stalin married his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, with whom he had a child. She died the following year. In 1911 whilst exiled in Siberia, he met his future second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
Soon after, Stalin discovered the writings of Vladimir Lenin and joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour ...

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