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Tyrants

A psychological exploration of how childhood wounds and trauma transform individuals into history's most destructive tyrants.

21 min read13 sections3,834 wordsFree online

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CHAPTER ONE The Wound JOSEF WAS BORN Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in a small Georgian town called Gori — not Russia. Not yet. Not even close. Georgia was a far-flung corner of the empire, a land of poets and priests, still soaked in blood from old rebellions. He was small. Sickly. One arm shorter than the other from a childhood accident. His father, Besarion, was a cobbler and a drunk. Violent. Unpredictable. He’d beat Josef’s mother. He’d beat Josef harder. Then vanish for days. Or weeks. Josef’s mother, Keke, wanted him to become a priest. That was her dream. She scrubbed floors to get him into seminary. It worked — he made it in. But he was already turning. He found books. He found...

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