Claim: Joseph Stalin was born in Eastern Europe.
Evidence: Stalin was born to a poor Georgian family in Gori , Russian Empire.
Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe , it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea , to the north by Russia , to the south by Turkey and Armenia , and to the southeast by Azerbaijan.
Gori -LRB- გორი -LSB- ɡɔri -RSB- -RRB- is a city in eastern Georgia , which serves as the regional capital of Shida Kartli and the centre of the homonymous administrative district.