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2. Keke. Moving house nine times: Ostrovsky, pp. 88–89. Violence: Kun, p. 12. Misery: Merzliakov in Molodaya Gvardiya no. 12, 1939, p. 37. Cossack’s whips: Stalin, Works, 1: 25–27. Josef Iremashvili, Stalin und die Tragödie Georgiens (henceforth Iremashvili), pp. 5–6, 9–12. Beso’s violence: N. Kipshidze. Keke’s violence: Hana Moshiashvili—quoted in Radzinsky, Stalin, p. 24. Svetlana on knife throwing, beatings by Keke quoted in Service, Stalin, p. 20. Beating: G.K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniniya (henceforth Zhukov), 3:215. Chased with whip, strangling Keke, Stalin cut, treated like a dog, “Help! Come quickly!”: Davrichewy, pp. 30–35.