Article: STALIN AND HIS LOVER AGED 13; Told for the first time, the astonishing story of the brutal dictator's affair with an underage schoolgirl . . . and how he made her pregnant.

Byline: SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE

THE STORY was too shocking to believe. But now that Stalin was dead, his successor Nikita Khrushchev decided he had to investigate the astonishing rumour about the monster's sexual depravity.

It was claimed that when he was in his 30s and before he became leader, Stalin had raped or seduced, even fathered a child with, a girl who was just 13 years old - and had been indicted for the underage seduction by the police.

The tale had long been dismissed as just another piece of Western anti-Stalin propaganda. It had first surfaced soon after he took over from Lenin as Soviet dictator in 1924, appearing in the ...

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