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*I would say you need to study at greater length, rather than post something so absurd. This is the danger of all students, reading something that might be factual, and accepting it as "truth" when in reading more, understanding more, one would realize that is isn't really the truth at all. Many things, in one context can be truthful, however taken in the greater, historical context, have entirely a different meaning or truth. "Persecution" of Homosexuals, given the times and overwhelming world view of the time, wasn't persecution as we know it today. You cannot judge historical events in today's accepted context. That is called revisionist history. --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]<sub><small><small>/Admin</small></small></sub><sup>[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</sup> 20:56, 4 April 2009 (EDT)
*I would say you need to study at greater length, rather than post something so absurd. This is the danger of all students, reading something that might be factual, and accepting it as "truth" when in reading more, understanding more, one would realize that is isn't really the truth at all. Many things, in one context can be truthful, however taken in the greater, historical context, have entirely a different meaning or truth. "Persecution" of Homosexuals, given the times and overwhelming world view of the time, wasn't persecution as we know it today. You cannot judge historical events in today's accepted context. That is called revisionist history. --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]<sub><small><small>/Admin</small></small></sub><sup>[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</sup> 20:56, 4 April 2009 (EDT)
==[[Simon Sebag Montefiore]]==
I am really rather surprised that no one has used Simon Sebag Montefiore's recent bestseller "Young Stalin" as a source for this article. There are a large number of urban legends about Stalin's life prior to 1917. For more than a decade, Mr. Montefiore has been examining thousands of pages of formerly classified documents and memoirs from the former Soviet Union. He has also tracked down and interviewed the descendants of the many illegitimate children who Stalin fathered prior to the Revolution. It is all there in black and white, including how and why Stalin lost his faith in the Christian God, the Atheistic subculture which he encouraged in the seminary in Tbilisi, and the many criminal activities which he used to finance Lenin's Bolsheviks. It is a vital source which should be used extensively by conservative historians, as it reveals just how and why the Bolsheviks defeated both the Tsar's Secret Police and the Provisional Government of Aleksandr Kerensky. If we are to compete successfully with Wikipedia, we must not deal in urban legends. Unfortunately, the Stalin article here seems to have been doing exactly that. [[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 17:59, 15 April 2009 (EDT)