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In the winter of 1913, Leon Trotsky was in Vienna visiting his friend the Menshevik Matvei Skobelev. Suddenly, the door opened, and Stalin (who was in Vienna to gather materials for his forthcoming work on the "national question") entered. Trotsky had never really met Stalin before (though they were both at the London 1907 Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, Trotsky did not recognize Stalin then--and why should he have, given the latter's obscurity as of 1907?). Skobelev explained to Trotsky that this was the Georgian Djugashvili who had just been elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee, and was starting to make a name for himself. Stalin went to the samovar, filled his empty glass with tea, and left without saying a word (though he had made a guttural growl which might have been taken for a greeting). http://books.google.com/books?id=v_1G3ddOoYsC&pg=PA173

POD: Before Stalin leaves, a robber enters, takes the exiles' meager possessions, and then shoots them all to prevent them from talking...

(This is assuming that Trotsky's story is acccurate; see https://books.google.com/books?id=cnGQl1fWE-wC&pg=PA156 for some reasons to doubt it...)
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