Re: Former Soviet Leader Gorbachev Admits He Is A Christian

Douglas Berry
> > > So? Stalin studied for the priesthood.

James A. Donald:
> > No, Stalin did not study for the priesthood.
> >
> > Stalin went to a religious school - as did every other 
> > member of the Georgian elite. 

Douglas Berry
> The son of a drunk, failed cobbler and a former serf was one of the
> Georgian elite?

His mother's lover was one of the elite.  Stalin was sent to an elite
school either on a scholar****p, in which case the elite was recruiting
those sufficiently talented regardless of birth, or by his mother's
lover, in which case he was in the elite by blood or adoption.  There
is no record of any scholar****p, but the official history says he got
a scholar****p.
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