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Molotov: Joseph Stalin
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Molotov joined the Bolsheviks in 1906 at the age of 16. In 1912, he and Joseph Stalin cofounded the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda (which means "Truth" in Russian). The paper was delivered to peasants in the country and Russian soldiers at the front-lines in World War One.
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Beria was immediately informed of Molotov's request. Beria in any case knew that it no longer made sense to hold Molotov's wife a prisoner. In 1949 she had been sentenced to a few years of exile, but in January 1953 she had been brought back in Moscow, having been included among the 'participants' in a 'Zionist conspiracy' together with a group of Jewish doctors. She had been interrogated under torture. The interrogations had only ceased on 1 or 2 March, yet on 9 or 10 March she was summoned to Beria's office. She had not heard that Stalin was dead and feared the worst.
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Following the purges, Molotov was generally regarded as Stalin's deputy and as his long-term successor, although Molotov was careful not to encourage any such suggestion. The American journalist John Gunther wrote in 1938: "Molotov has a fine forehead, and looks and acts like a French professor of medicine - orderly, precise, pedantic. a man of first-rate intelligence and influence. Molotov is a vegetarian and a teetotaller. Stalin gives him much of the dirty work to do".
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