1. Joseph Stalin
Like many other great rulers like the Austrian born German Hitler and the Corsican born French leader Napoleon, Stalin was an outsider in the empire he came to rule. Georgians possessed their own culture and language which was very different from the official Russian language of the empire, and the young Stalin only began learning Russian when he was nine years old. Years later, at the height of his power, he still spoke with a pronounced Georgian accent but boasted that he had forgotten the language. ... The most appealing of these ideas was Marxism, named for Karl Marx who was a 19th- centur...
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