Vissarion Jughashvili

Vissarion (Beso) Ivanovich Jugashvili (Виссарион (Бесо) Иванович Джугашвили in Russian; ბესარიონ ჯუღაშვილი Besarion Jughashvili in Georgian) (c. 1850 - 1890?) was Joseph Stalin's father. Hus surname is derived from jugha, the Ossetian word for trash.

Posthumous reputation

His effect on the young Joseph has been the subject of speculation, especially amongst psychologists both trying to explain Stalin's brutality, and trying to prove their psychological theories that a brutal father will create a brutal son. Alice Miller has suggested that Stalin's deformed left arm was a result of multiple fractures sustained while trying to defend himself from multiple beatings as a child, but there is no way of either proving or disproving this.

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