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“Stop sending people to kill me. If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.” I’ve come across this quote be
by simonh 5y ago
“Stop sending people to kill me. If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
I’ve come across this quote before and it’s a classic. It makes you wonder if it’s just happenstance that Tito outlived Stalin, although I aspect if Tito did have Stalin killed, it would have been in such a way that everyone would have known about it.
- lostlogin 5y agoStalin helped his on death in many ways (his drinking for one). However organising a campaign against doctors around the time of his death is deeply ironic (though quite how effective treatment at that time would have been is relevant). Simon Sebag Montefiore has written some excellent books about him, which is mentioned in the below discussion of his death. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stalin-180965119/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stal...
- Apocryphon 5y agoWell, Stalin was also 14 years older than Tito.
- lostlogin 5y agoHe was an incredible man. A megalomaniac, pathologically violent tyrant, and it's one hell of a life he led. The accounts of his behaviour are just horrifying. I can't recommend the various books on him by Simon Sebag Montefiore enough (and also his book on Jerusalem, and the one on the Romanovs, but that's off topic). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826564.Young_Stalin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826564.Young_Stalin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9477628-jerusalem https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9477628-jerusalem https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21094391-the-romanovs https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21094391-the-romanovs