The quotations come from Talk With the German Author Emil Ludwig, December 13, 1931, First Published: Bolshevik, April 30, 1932, No. 8., Source: Works, J.V. Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1955, Volume 13, pp. 106-25--- https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1931/dec/13.htm Doubtlessly Stalin being brought up by Jesuits is a pivotal reason why he become such a sociopathic monster! Karl Marx, who's revolution Stalin would continue, like Stalin, was brought up by the Jesuits. (" Marx was an average student. He was educated at home until he was 12 and spent five years, from 1830 to 1835, at the Jesuit high school in Trier, at that time known as the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium." https://www.biography.com/scholar/karl-marx )
" Ludwig: What impelled you to become an oppositionist? Was it, perhaps, bad treatment by your parents?
Stalin: No. My parents were uneducated, but they did not treat me badly by any means. But it was a different matter at the Orthodox theological seminary which I was then attending. In protest against the outrageous regime and the Jesuitical methods prevalent at the seminary, I was ready to become, and actually did become, a revolutionary, a believer in Marxism as a really revolutionary teaching.
Ludwig: But do you not admit that the Jesuits have good points?
Stalin: Yes, they are systematic and persevering in working to achieve sordid ends. But their principal method is spying, prying, worming their way into people's souls and outraging their feelings. What good can there be in that? For instance, the spying in the hostel. At nine o'clock the bell rings for morning tea, we go to the dining-room, and when we return to our rooms we find that meantime a search has been made and all our chests have been ransacked.... What good point can there be in that?"
Quoting from the New World Encyclopedia : " During his childhood, Joseph was fascinated by stories he read telling of Georgian mountaineers who valiantly fought for Georgian independence. His favorite hero in these stories was a legendary mountain ranger named Koba, which became Stalin's first alias as a revolutionary. He graduated first in his class and at the age of 14 he was awarded a scholarship to the Seminary of Tiflis, a Jesuit institution (one of his classmates was Krikor Bedros Aghajanian, the future Grégoire-Pierre Cardinal Agagianian,[2] which he attended from 1894 to 1899. Although his mother wanted him to be a priest (even after he had become leader of the Soviet Union), he attended seminary not because of any religious vocation, but because of the lack of locally available university education. Stalin received a small stipend from the seminary for singing in the choir." https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Josef_Stalin
Here is a documentary Monster: A Portrait of Stalin in Blood(5 part mini-series), 1991 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lasps7I6xo In this film it is shown that the key to Joesph Stalin's ascension to power was consolidating the Cheka--Soviet secret police--which was headed up by a Polish Roman Catholic Felix Dzerzhinsky! A photo of the two men together can be seen at the 4:29 minute mark of the film. Quoting from History Learning Site :
" Dzerzhinsky’s father was a teacher and his son received a good formal education even if it ended in what must have been disappointment for his parents. Dzerzhinsky was fluent in three foreign languages while at school and was brought up as a Roman Catholic. It is said that his first career choice while at school was to be a Jesuit priest. The only blemish on his final school report was for Greek for which he received an “unsatisfactory”. Dzerzhinsky was expelled from his school just weeks before leaving it because of “revolutionary activities” – he had joined the Union of Workers, a known Marxist group. In 1897 he was arrested for organising a strike at a shoe maker’s factory. He had also set up an illegal press there." https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/russia-1900-to-1939/felix-dzerzhinsky/
The Communist East German military police was also named after Roman Catholic Felix Dzerzhinsky! The unit was named "Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment"-- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky_Guards_Regiment
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