December 18

On December 18, 1878, he was born in Gori, Georgia. Losif Jughashvili was his birth name. Stalin's parents were impoverished, and he had a difficult upbringing. He contracted smallpox when he was seven years old. He lived, but his skin was scarred. He eventually went to seminary to become a priest, but he was booted because he was a radical. Stalin joined the Bolshevik revolutionaries after leaving the seminary. This was an underground movement founded by Vladimir Lenin that adhered to Karl Marx's communist theories.
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