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.
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.