It does sound like something a birthday normal person wold say to their aging mother/grandmother though. Just massively simplifying it down into something they'd understand within their frame of experience.
exactly. his mom was an old religious georgian peasant born in the mid 1800s who had never even left her village. she venerated the tsar. assuming the quote is true (which, again I doubt) I would honestly think the most charitable and likely interpretation is he was just telling his old mama what he thought she wanted to hear. "General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" wouldn't have made any sense to her.
honestly that whole "tsar" quote seems like the other miryad of bullshit stalin quotes they got in there
It does sound like something a
birthdaynormal person wold say to their aging mother/grandmother though. Just massively simplifying it down into something they'd understand within their frame of experience.exactly. his mom was an old religious georgian peasant born in the mid 1800s who had never even left her village. she venerated the tsar. assuming the quote is true (which, again I doubt) I would honestly think the most charitable and likely interpretation is he was just telling his old mama what he thought she wanted to hear. "General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" wouldn't have made any sense to her.