Have you lot heard the one about Stalin r*ping a 13 y/o girl? The Vaushites love this one. I think cause it's so obscure no one's yet debunked it.

So I looked into it out of curiosity.

But it's all apparently based on the conjecture of one 'historian' Simon Sebag Montefiore. He's what's known as a 'pop historian', a historian who makes books for middle aged white men who want to seem smarter than they are, sort of shit you see in Barnes and Noble/Waterstones or wherever.

He's also the guy who labelled Stalin the 'Red Tsar' for one of his books and a sensationalised, romanticised history of the Romanov family.

He wrote about this in a book called 'Young Stalin'. He then advertised the book in two right wing British newspapers:

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/stalin-and-his-lover-aged-13-6581841.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-454291/Stalin-lover-aged-13.html

You'll notice that both articles are completely unsourced and written like prose. Its more like Montefiore's bad fan fiction than anything else.

So I read the book itself, though just the section which he calls the 'Arctic Sex Comedy'. So guy wants to condemn Stalin for rape but it's a comedy? Even more icky is the line where he talks about how girls are 'more nature's for their age in Siberia.

The book in question: go to Chapter 34

He makes more or less the same points as in the two articles. But I was more interested in a direct source and quotation.

There is direct quotation of the girl in question's later memoirs, none of which infer any rape or even romance. But from this Montefiore imagines his own story.

He cites a statement by KGB head Serov that supposedly confirms the story but there is no actual reference to this document in the bibliography, nor an image of the document in question. The only direct quote from this source is: “J. V. Stalin started living together with her.”

And we know the two were indeed living in the same house so for all we know, this is just Serov confirming what we already know and not really any romantic/sexual relationship or even one of victimhood.

Montefiore is a historian without any sense of academic integrity. He writes sensationalised books for the sake of profit. And this is the basis for this new anti-Stalin meme, based on old anti-Stalin rumours. No one should take this man seriously, ever. Hell, have you seen which publications he chose to advertise his crap in?

I don't believe in deifying or canonising Stalin. He was man, a human being. He made plenty of mistakes during his career. But he did plenty of good also. Make legitimate critiques of the guy, this tabloid-esque smearing is intellectually dishonest.

And beyond this, the reactionaries who usually don't give a fuck about r*pe charges will be more than eager to condemn me and anyone else for not believing it was r#pe, call my a hypocrite for being a vocal supporter of metoo but dismissive of baseless charges lobbied against Stalin by someone who isn't even the alleged victim. But then reactionaries do what they always do, say anything any everything they can to try and win an argument regardless of how contradictory it is. They shout the loudest, say the most inflammatory things they can and think that helps them win.

But it's important that we put this information out there to counter their misinformation. Doubt it'll ever convince Vaush and sycophantic liberal mob but it's out there, don't give them quarter to use their propaganda against us.

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