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I hope nobody here is dumb enough to actually believe this. The claim originates from Simon Sebag Montefiore, one of those "communism killed trillions" people and was reported in a local tabloid. I honestly have never read a Stalin biography, even an anti-communist one, that ever mentioned this.
Safe to say that this is another one of those right wing smear campaigns like "Che killed gay people" and many others.
Should probably add that Montefiore is from such a long line of finance ghouls that it's almost hack to point out. His family has been rich since capitalism began, and deeply connected to the financial fims of the City of London. For more reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Montefiore <-- Simon Sebag Montefiore's ancestor, who apparently started the family fortune.
Edit: Historians have questioned some of his writings, however the New York Times fucking loves them :shocked-pikachu: I know. Somehow those sentences are written back to back in his Wiki-page, which should arouse zero suspicion of his credibility and his works.
It's so funny that simon sebag montefiore is the origin of that claim considering he's in epstein's flight logs (with his name slightly misspelled)
It takes one to know one it seems