20 Mind-Blowing Facts About Joseph Stalin

14. He Had An Affair With A 13 Year Old Girl

Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva
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Despite the reputation as a power-hungry brutal dictator, Stalin was very much a family man - pictured above with his daughter. However, for a liturgy of reasons, he was often forced by the KGB to seek exile outside of Russian political machine - Siberia being a favoured destination of his.

On one of many such adventures, he met an orphan named Lidia Pereprygina who, despite apparently looking old for her age, was a 13 year old girl. Eventually the two began a brief affair. The information of this was well suppressed, but when revealed some 80 years later caused outrage. As too the revelation that she'd conceived (and subsequently lost) a child of his.

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