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8. Hashimi Smirba: GF IML 8.2.1.20.155–222, Kotsia Kandelaki. GMIKA 21.57, Hamdi Smirba memoirs, p. 16, and 22.58, Hashimi Smirba, pp. 1–9. GMIKA 26.104.33–42, Porfiro Kuridze. Batumskaya, pp. 150–71. Stalin in women’s dresses: Suren Levonian interview on mother Terun Levonian in Batumi. On truth of Smirba story: Stalin in Charkviani, “Memoirs.” On Nestor Lakoba, see Montefiore, pp. 179–80. Jordania’s reaction: Zhordania, “Stalin,” p. 2. Trotsky, Stalin, pp. 31–32. Stalin, Works, 1:25. Stalin on his Gurian bodyguards and on losing people but winning: Mgeladze, p. 77. Stalin amends Beria’s book: Beria, p. 18.