robbery and note forgery to fund the Bolshevik party. Stalin was also arrested six times for revolutionary activity, and exiled to the harsh conditions of Siberia. This experience taught him the importance of determination and self-reliance, characteristics that would prove useful during his struggle to gain leadership. Stalin's combinative character of "iron will, fearlessness, patience and shrewdness with secretiveness and cool, calculated ruthlessness" were certainly used to his
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