(KYIV) – Joseph Stalin was officially worshipped during his lifetime, subsequently reviled, and is now being revered once again in a display of historical fickleness. Born in 1878 in the small Georgian town of Gori, he entered the world as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, the son of a cobbler and a laundress in the Russian Empire. Raised in poverty and violence, he was educated at a church school before enrolling in the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, he encountered Marxist literature…