Stalin could NEVER have been impersonated!  Through being born within the borders of Russia, he was not ethnically Russian but Georgian.  (As languages they are completely unrelated.)  His original name was Iosif Dzjugasjvili.  A possible look-alike could not have had, or even ACQUIRED, the same language skills!  His family and close friends would NOT be fooled.  The description of “Rashid” is not credible.  The claimed physical resemblance is to close to be true.  Furthermore, if he died in 1991 at the age of 93 he would have been born in 1898.  That would in turn make him 20 YEARS YOUNGER than Stalin!  Obviously, the author does not know what he/she is writing about.

2006-11-13  Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.