Stalin was beaten mercilessly by his father and raised by a cold, unloving mother—and grew into one of history's most brutal dictators. The pattern is recurrent: extreme emotional deprivation in childhood often correlates with adult obsessions around control, loyalty, and the belonging that was denied early. The tyrant frequently builds an empire to compensate for the home they never had.
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