“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

— Joseph Stalin

At the funeral of his first wife, Kato Svanidze, on 25 November 1907, as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore, p. 193
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