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** Other sources claim that Stalin also spoke Georgian with Beria, the Georgian head of the secret police, just to keep the conversations private, no other Georgian-speakers being present in the top clique.

** Stalin was not only fond of his mother, he was also kind of scared of her too; he supposedly left the Georgian Orthodox Church relatively untouched mostly because he was afraid of the tongue-lashing he'd get from Mom (she was a devout Georgian Orthodox Christian and had, after all, wanted him to be a priest).

* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Not only was his regime vicious it was unsporting and anytime someone happened to be an opponent he was in for a lot of what can only be described as spite. One of the more murderous examples of that was keeping the Russian artillery firing half an hour after the truce in the Winter War. A tamer example but one that is a clear example of pettiness was objecting to the Polish exile army taking part in the victory parade in London at the end of World War II. British agents during the Russian Civil War were always remembered as personally villainous rather then just as opponents. And of course during the Purge victims were accused not just of criminality but of impossibly repulsive villainy and forced to confess.

* [[Evil Overlord]] - One of the [[Trope Codifier|TropeCodifiers]], especially for Western audiences.

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Part of the secret to his success was his image, and he was good at it.