Date of Birth
The date of birth of Joseph Stalin is a controversial moment in his biography. The choice goes between two dates: December 21, 1879 and December 18, 1878. The second date is indicated by an extract from the metric book of the Gori Assumption Cathedral Church, which says about the birth of a son Joseph to the parents of Vissarion Ivanovich Dzhugashvili and his wife Ekaterina Georgievna (maiden name Geladze).
Stalin's change of the true date of his birth can be explained by both pragmatic reasons and esoteric ones. On the pragmatic side, the change of year of birth was due to the fact that celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the "leader" in 1928 was very inappropriate: the year turned out to be incredibly difficult and managed to contain everything from Trotsky's expulsion to peasant riots. But the change of birthday cannot be explained by anything except esotericism. There is a version that Gurdjieff, with whom Stalin studied at the same seminary, influenced Stalin's change of the date of his birth. The rectification of the date allowed Stalin to take and retain power.
Why Stalin?
For more than half a century our country was ruled by people under pseudonyms. It can be assumed that this is due to the fact that the Soviet leaders came out of underground cells and tsarist penal servitude, but if you start to understand, it turns out that each of the revolutionaries had their own reasons for changing their name. What reasons for changing the name did Joseph Dzhugashvili have?
Throughout his life, Stalin had three dozen pseudonyms. At the same time, it is significant that Iosif Vissarionovich did not make a secret of his surname. Who now remembers Apfelbaum, Rosenfeld and Wallach (Zinoviev, Kamenev, Litvinov)? But Ulyanov-Lenin and Dzhugashvili-Stalin are well known. Stalin chose the pseudonym quite deliberately. According to William Pokhlebkin, who devoted his work "The Great Pseudonym" to this issue, several factors coincided when choosing a pseudonym. The real source when choosing a pseudonym was the name of the liberal journalist, first close to the populists, and then to the Socialist-Revolutionaries Yevgeny Stefanovich Stalinsky, one of the prominent Russian professional publishers of periodicals in the provinces and a translator into Russian of Sh. Rustaveli's poem “The Knight in the Panther's Skin”. Stalin was very fond of this poem.
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Read what?
Contrary to the popular belief that of the entire revolutionary cohort, Stalin was almost the simplest, "from the plow", he was very educated. Do not forget about his studies at the seminary. Stalin could read Plato in the original, and this already says a lot. He had a huge library. He looked through most of his books, and read many carefully. Some - I read it several times. Stalin read books, usually with a pencil, but more often with several colored pencils. Numerous notes, underlining, phrases, comments in the margins eloquently indicate that Stalin read literature with great attention, and the image of “his boyfriend” was only an image for the proletariat.
Stalin and Matrona
There is a legend that on the eve of the Battle of Moscow in 1941, Joseph Stalin secretly visited Blessed Matrona. The eldress allegedly blessed the head of the country, and soon the Germans were driven back from Moscow. It is interesting that this meeting is captured in the hallmarks of several hagiographic icons of St. Matrona.
Stalin and oil
One of the most controversial issues regarding Stalin's personality and his successful political career is his relationship with the oil tycoons and, in particular, the Rockefellers and Standard oil. The fact that the oil companies were one of the "customers" of the Russian revolution is no longer a secret behind seven seals, but the role of Stalin in organizing the riots in Baku, when the Rothschild oil rigs were deliberately burned down, is still unclear. The topic of the relationship between Stalin and the Rockefellers is an endless field for conspiracy theories, but the fact that Stalin until a certain time depended on Western money is unambiguous.
Esoterics
At the suggestion of Stalin, the five-pointed star became the official symbol of the USSR. Stalin knew that the pentagram has a very powerful energy potential and is one of the most powerful symbols. The swastika could also become a symbol of the USSR, the cult of which was very strong in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The swastika was depicted on "kerenki", the swastikas were painted on the wall of the Ipatiev House by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna before the execution, but the Bolsheviks settled on a five-pointed star almost by Stalin's sole decision. The history of the 20th century will show that the “star” is stronger than the “swastika” … The stars shone over the Kremlin, replacing the two-headed eagles, and the economic activity of the state was determined by five-year plans.
Stalin's prediction
Stalin was well aware of his importance. He once said: “I know that after my death a heap of garbage will be put on my grave, but the wind of history will mercilessly scatter it!”. Charles de Gaulle said beautifully about Stalin: “Stalin is not a thing of the past. Stalin dissolved in the future."