[Steve]

I found this article today, it suggests that Stalin may have been an agent of the Tsarist secret police for a time before the revolution.

It is based around a letter from one police official to another.

I don't quite know what to make of it but it certainly was an interesting thing to read.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2808/chap3.html

[CasX]

That is extremely interesting, though it is hard to comprehend that it could be true. I would consider a forgery. But I'll have to read it all in more detail later.

[Tovarish Spetsnaz]

1956 Life Magazine...oh yeah...

Not only that...but he poisened Lenin on behalf of Tsarist police

[MB.]

Little known fact: Kruschev was actually a member of the Reform party of Canada.

[smithbrian86]

I remember reading a sizeable article that argued against the 'agent stalin' theory, I am going to try and find it and post it up here.

Brian Smith

[sokath]

I don't think this is likely as I don't think he took the name "Stalin" until at least 1912... or some date definitely later than 1908....

Just doesn't sound quite right to me..

Cheers,

S./

[Adrien]

Well the magazines usually publishing this kind of theories don't care if it looks true, and because of that it just ends up in unbacked Stalin bashing..

A little striking example, in a magazine called "Historia" i saw an article about that. They had a photo of some sort of meeting with all known soviet leaders of the pre-Stalin era, including Kalinin. Well above every guy was marked in white in a red rectangle "DIED POISONED", "ASSASINATED", etc.. etc.. and above Kalinin, in the same aggressive form was written "DIED OF NATURAL CAUSE"...

[elijahcraig]

Good god. This is just devestatingly, pathetic.