What if Stalin's first wife had lived a full life?

"This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity."

A few months ago I learned about Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died scarcely a year after marrying Stalin. He appeared to have genuine affection for her and while I'm hardly an expert, and therefore I'm not going to make any concrete declarations, it certainly seems plausible that he wouldn't have been the same ruthless kill-happy fellow that we all know so well had Kato survived.

Is there anyone who would either be able to provide more information on how Stalin was before his wife's death, and/or anyone willing to speculate on how his wife's survival (let's assume that she manages to at least survive past World War II) would affect him?
 
Well you prompted me to go about looking this up in a cursory fashion so here's what I got...

At this point he had met Lenin.

He had participated in multiple activities with what would become the Bolsheviks and on their behalf.

He also did have a very rough background growing up and he was from the start kind of... troubled, as a child he played his schoolmates against each other and took control of his group in that way, he was a skilled manipulator and knew how to use it. Still, I think Miss Ekaterina opened him in ways that nobody had done before for him.
 
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