From Russia with love .............nanazola

A poster of StalinWhile photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic (he had several painters shot who did not depict him "right"),[291] he was only five feet four inches high (160 cm).[291] (President Harry S. Truman, who stood only five feet nine inches himself, described Stalin as "a little squirt

His mustached face was pock-marked from small-pox during childhood. After a carriage accident in his youth, his left arm was shortened and stiffened at the elbow, while his right hand was thinner than his left and frequently hidden

He could be charming and polite, mainly towards visiting statesmen