Dictators' Wives Who Died Awful Deaths
Joseph Stalin married his first wife long before he became the dictator feared by millions. In the early 1900s, Stalin, then going by his birth name Ioseb Jughashvili, was already involved in revolutionary politics. At one point, he used a safe house owned by the Svanidze family in present-day Tbilisi, Georgia, according to "Stalin: Paradoxes