Unknown History: Did the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin REALLY speak English?!

Did Joseph Stalin REALLY speak English? How many languages DID he speak? And why does it matter?

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Sources:

1) David McCullough, Truman, 1992.

2) "Stalin Admitted Knowledge Of English, Roosevelt’s Son Says," AP News (February 1986) https://apnews.com/article/8c6e28a9f752338340b79e00a8903381 accessed 16 January 2023.

3) On Stalin's Interpreter, an article and interview with Vladimir Pavlov's wife, 1999 (in Russian), https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/214282

4) Some image sources:

-Some Allied conference images: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R86965 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 and Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R67561 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.

-Territories promised to Italy in 1915, map by Jcw12, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Promised_Borders_of_the_Tready_of_London.png, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

-Stalin plaque in Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wien_-_Stalin-Gedenktafel.JPG Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.