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TIL that at the funeral of his first wife, Kato Svanidze, Stalin said "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity." During her burial, Stalin was so overcome with grief that he threw himself into her grave, and had to be dragged out.

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