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JANUARY 11,1938 STALIN IS SEEN AS LONELY AND L1HLEKNOWN Dictator Is Figure of Mystery as He Staffs New Yfcaf. BY MILTON BUONNEB NKA Writer LONLX)N, JAn. loiiely than 'ever irt Ilia solitary eminence, Soviet Russia's mighty Stalin cloes hot Start of his 5Gth year "of life. For the same assassin's bullet which recently snuffed out the life of Serge Kyrof, another of the inner ring of the Soviet government, also pluriged deep Into the soul of Stalin, "the steely one." It robbed him of one of his closest and most trusted friends and turned to bitter ashes all thoughts of making an event of his birthday anniversary. There are few to share it with him.

His wife died nearly three years ago. His daughter does not live in Moscow. His 33-year-old son works in south' ern Russia as an engineer. Evert that birthday is somewhat problertiatical, as befits this strange ruler of men. Some say he was born December 8, 1870, old style (Russian calendar).

Others fix It at December 21, 1879. Still others say it was January 2, 1880. So that, bringing them into accord with our calendar, the dates would be respectively, December 21, 1S79, January 3, 1880, and January 15, 1880. The one thing that is sure is that he is 65. Still a Mystery Figure By comparison to Lenin, the Bolshevik demi-god, and to Trotsiky, Stalin is largely unknown even at this late day.

This-is because, unlike he does not wield a facile pen, has not written books in which he is his own little hero and has hot in writing and in speech attributed to himself all that Is startling, dramatic and successful in the Russian revolution. Stalin started out in life as Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, born in the little town of Gori, in the Georgian part of the province of Hiflis. His father was an humble peasant worker in a shoe factory at Tiflis. The boy went through the church school In Gori and then entered the Tiflis Orthodox Theological College. Strangely enough, this school was a hotbed of revolutionary thought, so far as the pupils were concerned and young Joseph was soon in the thick of it, organizing- a Marxist circle, spreading illegal literature among the Tiflis factory workers and joining their labor party.

He naturally was soon expelled from college. From now on he devoted himself to underground work for' the revolution, using various names Koba, Nizheradze, Ivano- vicli. But the one which pleased him best and which stuck to him was given him by his (the steely one) because o'f his boldness, resolution and ruthlessness. With the Tzarist police and spies on his track, he soon became a veritable in-again, out-agaln Stalin. Finding Tiflis'too hot for went to'Batum, where he organized strikes against the oil companies.

He was arrested in 1902 and In 1903 exiled for three years to the Irkutsk province of Siberia. Within a month he escaped and bobbed up in Tiflis. Favored Use of Force Even then within the Socialist party there was a violent struggle between the Mensheviks, who Wanted revolution by semi-constitutional methods, and the Bolsheviks; who wanted to seize power by force. plumped tor Bolshevism and never wavered. In 1905 he went to a Bolshevik conference In Finland and for the first time met Lenin.

1907 saw him back in Baku editing Bolshevik papers, writing Bolshevik pamphlets. March 1908, he was shipped off to exile in Vologda province. As usual, he escaped and came right back ot Baku. 1910, same story. This time he bobbed up in what was then St.

Petersburg, was arrested, exiled and again There followed the same monotonous story for seven more exije, escape. Between arrests he directed the publication of the future great Soviet Kerensky's moderate revolution found him back in Petrograd and he played a large part with Lenin and Trotzky in organizing the Bolshevik revolution, which took Russia out of the world war and to a humiliating peace with Germany. In 1917 he got the position which was the foundation of his future in the Bolshevik central committee. He was also in succession Commissar for Nationalities and for Workers' and Peasants' Inspection. What is not so generally known Is Stalin's incessant work at all the war fronts when the Soviet government was struggling against various White armies, financed by the Allies and other interested parties.

At times it looked. as if the Bolsheviks would collapse before these various onslaughts. Usually, when things were at their darkest, Lenin would send Stalin forward as his special $gent. He knew him to- be brave, honest and ruthless. Stalin never blenched when he deemed It necessary to have cowardly or treacherous leaders shot.

He realized the necessity of food and warm clothing, for the soldiers and managed to supply them. Not trained as a soldier, he showed a quick grasp of military strategy. In those troubled years he was turn at Tsaritsyn in southern Russia where the Whites were threatening''the Ukraine granary in the west and the Caucausus in the south; at Perm in the Ural mountain ranges, and, finally, at the most threatening place of all, the line between Orel and Tula which endangered Moscow itself. In each case he helped his cause to victory. THE RHtNELANDER (W1S.) DAILY NEWS PAGE? -JM lary of the Bolshevik central committee.

Lenin's death in 1924 brought the rivalry to a climax. Stalin won. As he had control of the party machinery. There were those who thought he would not dare oust Trotzky and, if he dared, that the Red Army would make trouble. There was hardly a ripple.

The victor divested the vanquished of his party standing-. Then he ex-iled him to distant part of Russia and finally booted him out of the country entirely. The men's opposition was fundamental. Trotzky wanted to work for revolution in all the countries of the; world. Stalin wanted to stabilize and organize the revolution of his own country first.

Out of this Vrew his huge five-year plan to develop great industries in Russia and his second plan for collective running of the farms. He wiped out the kulaks, as the richer peasants were called. Today, with all power in his hands, Stalin is rarely seen in public except when he reviews a parade the tike to work. In a plain bare room in the Kremlin he labors all day over state papery When he is through, he goes in an automobile to his plain little home in the Korkl suburb of Moscow. He has lived to see his government recognized by all the great powers of world and to see Russia admitted to jthe League of Nations.

Trotzky's policy of seeking to tetlr up Bolshevik revolutions in other countries would have kept Russia a pariah. Mrs. E. Wendt Vvere busi- -S callers at Lake Tomahawk on Tuesday of this week. Nashville on is confined to his home because of William Van Cleave Is (I.

W. Ison made a professional call here Saturday JSCODS at me nome or Mrs. wenry Campbell. Mrs. Jacobs received, many A.

A. Cole has been 111 the past week. McNaughton Mr. and Mrs. Art Paulson- spent the week-end in Wausau visiting relatives returning home Monday Harold Thayer and Mrs.

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