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"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?
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