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temporary custom by formally accepting her husband’s nation-

ality, but who still remained an advocate of the militarism, and

customary acceptance of the intensified hysteria which covered

Europe at the time. That was the Europe of the three Emperors:

the splendor of three people with limited intelligence, two of

whom revealed pathological traits. The concept of “honor”

sanctified triumph. Staring at someone too long was sufficient

pretext for a duel. These brothers were thus raised to be valiant

duelists covered with saber-scars; however, the slashes they

inflicted upon their opponents were more frequent and much

worse.

When people with a humanistic education pondered the per-

sonalities of this family, they concluded that the causes for this

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formation should be sought in contemporary time and customs.

If, however, the sister had not suffered brain damage and the

pathological factor had not existed (exclusionary hypothesis),

their personalities would have developed more normally even

during those times. They would have become more critical and

more amenable to the values of healthy reasoning and humanis-

tic contents. They would have founded better families and re-

ceived more sensible advice from wives more wisely chosen.

As for the evil they sowed too liberally during their lives, it

would either not have existed at all, or else would have been

reduced to a scope conditioned by more remote pathological

factors.

Comparative considerations also led the author to conclude

that Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, also known as Stalin,

should be included in the list of this particular ponerogenic

characteropathy, which developed against the backdrop of

perinatal damage to his brain’s prefrontal fields. Literature and

news about him abounds in indications: brutal, charismatic,

snake-charming; issuing of irrevocable decisions; inhuman

ruthlessness, pathologic revengefulness directed at anyone who

got in his way; and egotistical belief in his own genius on the

part of a person whose mind was, in fact, only average. This

state explains as well his psychological dependence on a psy-

chopath like Beria39. Some photographs reveal the typical de-

formation of his forehead which appears in people who suf-

fered very early damage to the areas mentioned above. His

typical irrevocable decisions his daughter describes as follows:

~~~

Whenever he threw out of his heart someone whom he

had known for a long time, classifying him among his


39 L.P. Beria (1899–1953), Soviet Communist leader, b. Georgia. He rose to

prominence in the Cheka (secret police) in Georgia and the Transcaucasus,

became party secretary in these areas, and in 1938 became head of the secret

police. As commissar (later minister) of internal affairs, Beria wielded great

power, and he was the first in this post to become (1946) a member of the

politburo. After Stalin’s death (Mar., 1953), Beria was made first deputy

premier under Premier Malenkov, but the alliance was shaky; in the ensuing

struggle for power Beria was arrested (July) on charges of conspiracy. He and

six alleged accomplices were tried secretly and shot in Dec., 1953. [Editor’s

note.]


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“enemies” in his soul, it was impossible to talk to him about

that person. The reverse process became impossible for

him, namely persuasion that he was not his enemy, and any

attempts in that direction made him fly into a rage. Redens,

Uncle Pavlusha, and A.S. Svanidze were incapable of doing

anything about it; all they accomplished was to have my fa-

ther break off contacts and withdraw his trust. After seeing

any of them for the last time, he said goodbye as if to a po-

tential foe, one of his “enemies”…40

~~~

We know the effect of being “thrown out of his heart”, as it

is documented by the history of those times.

When we contemplate the scope of the evil Stalin helped to

bring about, we should always take this most ponerogenic

characteropathy into account and attribute the proper portion of

the “blame” to it; unfortunately, it has not yet been sufficiently

studied. We have to consider many other pathologic deviations

as they played essential roles in this macrosocial phenomenon.

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