People vzroslevshie in the thirties and forties, remember that Stalin seemed to them a giant.Huge portraits hanging in kindergartens, schools and all institutions, colossal statues, bas-reliefs and profiles posted stones on railway embankments, subtly inspired the idea of the greatness of the leader of the world communist movement, though not literally, but still ...
then heldXX Congress, and people were surprised to learn that they deify the head of state was Sukhorukov, pock-marked and did not like his image replicated.Height of Stalin, they were told, was a little boy, he had a shabby appearance, and generally ...
human psychology peculiar desire to subvert the object of deification, especially when this activity becomes safe.This gets all its features, both the nature and appearance.Until 1962, the Soviet people could see the body of the former leader personally, it lay in the mausoleum in Red Square.However, to determine the growth of Stalin was not easy, the time is limited, as compared with something hard.Do not lie down next to the line, and do not bring.Some people wondered how much influence the anthropometric data on a person's character.Almost all the great dictators were not high.Napoleon Bonaparte even once quipped about one of his marshals: "It is longer than me, but not higher!"
Nowadays there are objective sources, allowing to judge what was the rise of Stalin to see (and can vershoks).St. Petersburg Police Department after one of the arrests of Joseph Dzhugashvili has brought the registration card, which were described in detail all the features of his appearance, including the special sign - a mole on the ear (left).There is also a photo in profile and full face.The increase of Stalin - 1 m 74 cm. Not a giant, but not a dwarf, a man of medium height.
There are other sources that would reveal how high was the secretary of the Central Committee.For example, a photo in which he embraces the legendary pilot Valery Chkalov, which no one thought of the baby."Stalinist Falcon" is a bit higher, but to talk about the huge difference is not necessary.
But further evidence.After escaping from exile in 1904 orientation, compiled in Novoudinskom township board, described the appearance of a state criminal Josef Dzhugashvili.In particular, age - 24 years old, pockmarked (yes, it's true!), Eye color - brown.Height of Stalin in these years - 38 inches, which is approximately in the range from 170 to 175 cm.
If we consider that over the years, each person becomes lower, then we can assume that by the age of seventy "father of nations" too few "squatted"centimeter by two or three.
historians, and ordinary people tend to be interested in different aspects of everyday life of famous people.The old myths refuted, creating new, appropriate political environment and the dominant ideology.The modest gray jacket and overcoat paramilitary became symbols of modesty.Created these things Marxist-ascetic image is not consistent with other personal preferences of the leader, accept only "Packard" and arrange at their dachas luxurious banquets unprecedented latitude in the most difficult and hungry years.
Cruelty, which many well-known historians defined as bestial and mindless, also does not answer the question of what ultimately sought to Joseph Stalin.Growth in this case only illustrates the logic of the arguments of such "research psychologists": angry dwarf hates tall handsome (Yezhov and Yakir, or what?), Is jealous and brutally crushes them.Apparently, Stalin's actions were motivated more complex, which has yet to understand.And the growth is not to blame.
