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