![]() It was usually a fatal disease and for a time it looked as if he would die. Soso, as he was called throughout his childhood, contacted smallpox at the age of seven. As a child, Joseph experienced the poverty that most peasants had to endure in Russia at the end of the 19th century. He was an extremely violent man who savagely beat both his son and wife. Joseph's father, Vissarion Djugashvilli, was a bootmaker and his mother took in washing. Understandably, given this background, Joseph's mother was very protective towards him as a child. The first three died and as Joseph was prone to bad health, his mother feared on several occasions that he would also die. His mother, Ekaterina Djugashvilli, was married at the age of 14 and Joseph was her fourth child to be born in less than four years. Joseph Djugashvilli (Stalin), was born in Gori, Georgia on 21st Decembe, 1879. Martemyan Ryutin criticises Joseph Stalin.
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