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In the making of history a tiny defect in the personality of man left uncorrected shall have impact correspondingly: the more power he has the more damage it is likely to cause.
The harshness and poverty of his early years took a toll on Joseph Stalin. His mother sent him to a seminary in order to shelter him from the crudities and repressive dominance of a drunken father.
At the Tiflis school his education was short on foreign languages and Sciences. Stalin as a result was never to achieve that command of German thought essential for a would-be Marxist. More glaring was his lack of training in what constitutes the scientific method. Mathematics was also absent. Undoubtedly these contributed to his obscurantism and a scorn for pure research. His exhortive style of addressing his audience also was picked up during his stint in the seminary.
His shortcomings were to do incalculable damage to Soviet science and the scientists in his later years.
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