I heard that it comes from some biography and wasn't cited in that, but I forget which biography.

  • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]
    ·
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    Same places that claim Mao had a harem of child slaves I think (orientalist)

    Last time it came up on Hexbear a few years ago the general consensus was it was probably bullshit but not to deify stalin-shining regardless bc communists aren't supposed to do that

    I think the general claim was that he was run out of a small town or village when he was 17 years old by a mob claiming some reason or another but mobs are unreliable sources

  • TheOtherJack [he/him, any]
    ·
    9 months ago

    Someone's ass-- straight from the pit of the ass.

    "Stalin: A Look From the Outside", Deviatov and Sigachev. (But it claims she was 14 not 13-- not that there's a difference.