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Greetings, Kamrad. Our interview with Dmitri Potappenko happened and it was about an hour and a half long. However, I want to do it in the news style, fully dubbed, and that has taken us more time than we expected. So meanwhile, let us continue on

with Stalin. There's never enough Stalin anyways, and in this episode I would like to cover

her personal involvement in the Civil War. If you want all the general details, then they are

in my Lenin series about this period, but like I said in previous episodes, we'll be focusing on Stalin and what he did during this period personally.

Now, a very important spot for both Stalin's career and future marriage, what's his work in Tsaritsyn.

See, in May 1918, or my other sources say April the 6th or June the 6th, depending on the source, it's all messed up, but around that period of time, Stalin took charge of the grain collection in Russia's, at that point, extremely fertile southern lands.

Together with his secretary, Nadjjjad Alulieva,

the detachment of infantry about 400 strong, and two armored cars,

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