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...This was at Tiflis, where, as every Rus sian knows, the Dictator's mother lives in two rooms of the Palace of the former Tsarist Governor of Georgia, now a Soviet Republic (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Questing on to find Josef Stalin's birthplace in near by Gori, Camerawoman Margaret Bourke-White was shown a hole in the ground. In this hole, commodious enough once one walks in, still lives Stalin's great-aunt. After merrymaking over bread and wine, she raised her glass, gave this thoughtful toast: "To the honored guest! To the illustrious relative...
STALIN, Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili; b. Gori, Tiflis Province 1879; m. Nadejda Sergeyevna Alleluya...
...want you to correct one thing," said Mme Dzhugashvili, manifesting some excitement. "They talk a lot about Soso's being born in Lilo, but that's entirely wrong! . . . Soso was born in Gori. . . . I'm his mother and I ought to know! . . . Soso will be 51 eight days after Christmas old style. I don't know what date it would be by the new way of reckoning.* I never could learn...