By Clifford Shack

It's well known that the former Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, was such a good communist that he once worked for the Rothschilds, the banking and wine family. But now I stumble on a more sensational theory, which suggests the relationship was far more intimate.

In a lengthy piece on a personal website, one Clifford Shack argues that Stalin was fathered not by Vissarion Dzhugashvili but by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who, he argues, could have met the tyrant's mother while visiting Georgia on a wine trip.

It's all a bit sketchy and at times the argument seems a trifle far fetched but it's easily settled via a DNA test (Stalin's daughter's still alive). Could I possibly impose and pluck a strand of chairman Baron David de Rothschild's hair, I ask an NM Rothschild spokesman?

"I'll get back to you," he sighs.

Mind you do.

THE consortium looking to gazump Barclays and buy ABN Amro had announced that it would be making a statement on the deal tomorrow, only to shove out a press release yesterday saying that it would now speak on Tuesday.

So what's changed? Has the consortium leader and Royal Bank of Scotland boss, Sir Fred Goodwin, got something better to do on Sunday? I hear he's racing off to Monaco to watch the RBS-sponsored Williams team in the Grand Prix.

"Our statement clearly says that it's been moved because of a bank holiday," blocks a spokesman.

Hasn't there always been a bank holiday?

"Our statement's pretty clear," he sniffs.

I only asked.

WHAT adverts will the Post Office be showing on the telly this weekend? I ask because over the last bank holiday weekend, Sky Three broadcast a riveting programme called the Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Nazi Dams at 4am and during an ad break the Post Office took the opportunity to plug its winter sports insurance.

It's not an obvious show, time of day or season to be trying to flog that kind of product but I'm sure it was money well spent. Especially with a Post Office closure programme under way.

Not all doctors are struggling to get jobs. I hear that Holly Branson, Sir Richard's girl and number 10 in Forbes' Hottest Heiress list, has just landed a new gig at Chelsea & Westminster hospital. Isn't life grand?

simon.goodley@telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph UK:"Was Stalin a Rothschild?"

The Bizarre Connection Between Stalin & the Rothschilds

Stalin and the Rothschilds is one of the more bizarre connections that I discovered while writing a book on the dictator’s early life. Stalin worked for the Rothschilds; he burnt down their refinery and ordered the assassination of their managing director — yet later they helped fund Lenin and Stalin.

There were always rumours, but my discovery of a long-forgotten memoir in the archives of Tbilisi now reveals the true story.

In December 1901 Stalin, aged 23, arrived in the Black Sea oil port Batumi, which was dominated by the Rothschild and Nobel dynasties.

One day Stalin came home late boasting, ‘Guess why I got up so early this morning? Today I got a job with the Rothschilds!’ Then he almost crooned, ‘I’m working for the Rothschilds! I’m working for the Rothschilds!’

One of his comrades, who wrote the memoir, joked, ‘I hope the Rothschilds will prosper from this moment onwards!’ Stalin sniggered, thrilled to be working for the dynasty that personified the wicked glamour of international capital.

On Stalin’s first day at work the Rothschilds’ refinery mysteriously caught fire. Stalin bragged to his comrade, ‘Your words came true.’ The Rothschilds did indeed prosper with Stalin as an employee. Stalin the arsonist next organised a brutal strike.

When the Rothschilds’ director refused his demands, Stalin ordered his assassination: the gun jammed and the director fled back to Paris.

This was not the end of Stalin’s relations with the Rothschilds. In 1907 he moved to the lawless boom city Baku, home of super-rich oil barons who were much the same as today’s oligarchs.

To finance Lenin, Stalin’s gangster outfit of hitmen and bank robbers used protection rackets, piracy, blackmail and kidnapping.

The Rothschilds were hugely powerful in Baku, yet the Tsar’s secret police and Bolshevik memoirists recorded how the Rothschilds contributed to Stalin’s funds, even paying him off to stop a strike.

The Rothschilds never knew (??) that they had employed the future supreme pontiff of Marxism-Leninism — nor that he burnt down their refinery. The family shrewdly sold their Russian interests in 1912.

Only now have they returned to Russia. I recently recounted this to Jacob Rothschild, sending him a postcard of young Stalin on which I wrote, ‘Your Employee of the Month 1902!’

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/30681/diary.thtml

Was Stalin a Rothschild?

Joseph Stalin was born Iosef Vissarionovich Zhugashvili on December 18, 1878 in Gori, Republic of Georgia.The identity of Josef Stalin's biological father is, however, shrouded in mystery.

According to the official story, Stalin's father,Beso Zhugashvili, was a cobbler from Gori, a city in the Republic of Georgia. Beso was a drunk and a wife beater who also beat Stalin. It is said that the marriage between Beso and Keke, Stalin's mother, was arranged to hide the identity of Stalin's real father. There were rumors circulating, during Stalin's lifetime, that his real father was the explorer Przhevalsky. People uttering these rumors during Stalin's reign of terror were not murdered because Stalin enjoyed the association. Przhevalsky was a well known Russian hero.

Although Stalin may have received some satisfaction from the rumor it was not true. While Przhevalsky did indeed visit Gori around the time of Stalin's conception, he was a homosexual.

So the question remains. If Beso and Przhevalsky weren't responsible for the world's greatest murderer...than who was?

This question was explored by the Russian author,Edvard Radzinsky who wrote an "in-depth" biography of Stalin. Given access to previously secret Kremlin files, Radzinsky noted in his book:

"After Stalin's death, when terror disappeared, people started naming several supposititious fathers. There was even one Jew, a merchant, among them. But the name most often mentioned was that of Yakov Egnatashvili. He was a wealthy wine merchant, a boxing enthusiast, and one of those [Stalin's mother] Keke worked for. Yakov Egnatashvili must have had some reason for funding Soso's seminary education. People said that Stalin called his first son Yakov in honor of Egnatashvili. . . . I have seen a portrait of this Georgian hero . . . he was certainly nothing like the puny Soso [Stalin's nickname]. . . . (Letter from N. Goglidze, Kiev)"

This is as far as Radzinsky was able to reveal. His information is sufficient however to take the investigation to the next level.For this he is to be commended.

Joseph (Iosif) Dzhugashvili or "Soso", as his mother called him in Georgian fashion, was directly responsible for murdering millions of people. It has been said that Stalin was responsible for the murder of about 20,000,000 people during the years 1924-1953.

Stalin is quoted as saying,"One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic."

Now let's face it. Stalin must have had some powerful connections to accomplish murder on such a grand scale. If you want to believe that his father was a drunken boot-maker than go right ahead. I believe that there is a missing piece to his puzzle.I also believe that a local wine merchant, regardless of how successful he may have been, is just not powerful enough to thrust a son, illegitimate or not, on to the world stage and reek that kind of carnage without a peep from the world community.

You may argue that Hitler also came from humble beginnings. My answer to that is that Hitler's biological origins were also suspicious and were investigated by the highest Austrian authorities. What they found was that Hitler's story was a lie. Hitler's grandmother was employed as a house-keeper in the Rothschild mansion in Vienna. This was discovered by no less than the Austrian Chancellor, Dollfuss, in his attempt to understand Hitler's hidden connections. Dollfuss died for his efforts. A distinguished member of an all-powerful banking family would be easily able to promote an illegitimate son through the ranks of power.(Using the Rothschild model,the Rockefeller family successfully promoted Bill Clinton to the presidency of the U.S.)

Quiet cousins, John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV and "Bill Clinton"

How did Hitler curiously wind up with Rothschild's typewriter?

So who fathered Stalin?

Since it had been officially proven by the Austrian government that the Rothschilds were plausibly biologically connected to Adolph Hitler,I suggest here that a member of the great Rothschild banking house may have fathered Stalin. That would make Hitler and Stalin cousins, explaining more than one mystery of the last century.

Stalin was not born in London,Paris,Frankfurt,Vienna or Naples- the major capital cities of Europe where prominent members of the Rothschild banking family dwell.Stalin was born in Gori, a city in the Republic of Georgia.So how could a European Rothschild father a child in Transcaucasia,Central Asia? [Transcaucasia is a geographical region south of the Caucasus Mountains, encompassing the independent states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.]

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What would bring an aristocratic member of the Rothschild family to Transcaucasia? Rothschilds are all about money. Great money. They are not bankers to people like you and I but bankers to countries. What could possibly interest them in Transcaucasia? Georgia's main export was and still is wine. The Rothschilds already had plenty of that. Armenian mines produce copper, zinc, gold, and lead but not in any significant quantities to merit the attention of the Rothschilds.

At first I thought that a Rothschild could have been on his way to the great horse markets of Central Asia in an effort to enhance the quality of the family's thoroughbred breeding lines.

While the horse market is a possible explanation, there was another attraction in the Caucasus. There was something quite valuable in the regon of Transcaucasia that demanded the attention of the powerful Rothschild banking house.

Due east of the Republic of Georgia is the Republic of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan was very important to the future of Europe's greatest banking family.

Azerbaijan had (and still has) OIL! PLENTY of OIL.

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In 1878, the time of Stalin's birth,the great Russian oil business was getting under way and the shrewd Rothschilds planned on capitalizing on Russian oil in a big way-through secret monopolization.

[This is the story of just how the Rothschilds would secretly come to rule Russia and therefore become the sole player in Russian oil.Their trump card was their dirty little secret-Josef Stalin.]

Why would a Rothschild find himself in Stalin's Republic of Georgia? The answer is really quite simple. For a Rothschild to travel to the Baku oil fields in Azerbaijan, he must travel through...Georgia!

Logistically, the Rothschild yacht would sail from the shores of,possibly, France, and arrive at the port of Poti or Batumi.(Batumi was not incorporated into Georgia until March of 1878,coincidently the year of Stalin's birth).

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The Rothschild travel party would traverse Georgia where about 100 miles inland they would reach Gori, Stalin's birthplace. Gori would have provided a logical rest stop. It is not inconceivable that they would be guests of a wealthy Jewish wine merchant.(It would also,perhaps, provide an opportunity for intimacy with a pretty laundress in the employ of said wine merchant).

After Gori, the Rothschild travel party would continued another fifty miles further to the Georgian capital of Tflis (now Tbilisi).

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In Tiflis of 1878, as VIPs, the Rothschild's noble entourage would undoubtably be received in royal fashion by the Viceroy of the Caucasus- the Grand Duke Michael Nicolaevich of Russia.

[Grand Duke Michael Nicolaevich of Russia (October 13, 1832 – December 18, 1909) was the fourth son and seventh child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia.He served for a long time (1862-1882) as the Governor General (viceroy)of Caucasia, being seated in Tbilisi.-Wikipedia]

The building of the former Tsarist Palace of the Viceroy of the Caucasus in Tbilisi,Republic of Georgia as shown in 1990.Source:Viceroy Palace

The huge palace of the Grand Duke was surely a fitting rest-stop for a Rothschild on his way to the Baku oil fields. I can easily imagine the banker and the Grand Duke discussing the future of Russian oil while drinking glasses of delicious local wine. Together, the Rothschilds and Tsarist Russia would dominate the world of oil, eventually out-producing and out-selling the Standard Oil Company owned by John D. Rockefeller.

I believe the Grand Duke had an indirect role in the mystery of Stalin's father. According to the latest biography on Josef Stalin, "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore,(just released in October 2007) Stalin's mother was employed by the Grand Duke!

To quote Montefiore:

"Within this royal palace home of Nicholaevich was employed a laundress named Ekaterina Djugashvili,Keke for short".

Stalin's mother,Keke, worked for both the Viceroy in Tflis AND the wine merchant of Gori! Did the traveling Rothschild party visit both these places en route to Baku? It would seem naturally so! After Stalin and the Bolsheviks murdered the Russian royal family, when Stalin secured his dictatorship he would give his mother the huge royal palace in Tflis for a residence .

If it has been established that it IS plausible that a Rothschild could have fathered Stalin we must ask whether it can be proven. But before we can answer that it is necessary to narrow down our list of possible "father" suspects.

Which Rothschild was in the best position to be in Transcaucasia in 1878? (Once a prime suspect can be identified, finding proof one way or the other becomes simple. Not easy necessarily, but simple.)

Was there a Rothschild in Gori or Tflis in 1878? Josef Stalin was born on December 18, 1878. This puts his time of conception, forty weeks (nine months) prior, around March 18, 1878.

After Stalin's ascent to the leadership of Soviet Russia,during his first major interview with correspondents of a major Swedish newspaper, he lied about the year of his birth. Stalin claimed to have been born in 1879. I believe that Stalin lied in an effort to prevent the possible discovery of his true biological father. I believe the year 1878 holds a key clue to the discovery of Stalin's hidden origins. I believe Stalin knew this.

Why did Stalin try to alter his year of birth? Nothing of major historical significance occured in Transcaucasia in March of 1879. Certainly nothing occurred of historical importance to suggest the personal presence of a member of the powerful Rothschild family in the area.

March 1878 was quite different.

You see, the key to the success of the Rothschild's Russian oil business depended on the ability to transport oil from Baku in Azerbaijan; across the Republic of Georgia to a destination on the Black Sea- the seaport of Batumi.

The problem prior to 1878 was that the Port of Batumi was not under Russian control.It was owned by the Turkish Ottomans. Instigating a war between the Russians and the Turks would correct this logistical problem. (By the way, I do insinuate that the Rothschilds instigated the war.They needed Batumi under Russian control for the future of their oil interests.)The transfer of Batumi occurred as a result of a Russo-Turkish War 1877-78. The Treaty of San Stefano was the preliminary treaty settling things between Russia and Turkey. It was signed on March 3, 1878 at San Stefano (Yesilkoy), a village west of Istanbul.

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Was there a Rothschild in attendence at the Treaty signing? Bankers together with their lawyers have been known to attend Treaty signings significant to their business interests.(Hamburg banker,Max Warburg,for example,attended the signing of the Treaty of Versailles,this laid the groundwork for WWII, an event which directly and indirectly reaped huge profits for European banking and oil interests.)

Again I ask, did a Rothschild family member attended the signing of the San Stefano Treaty? Also, did he proceed afterwards to survey the newly acquired Port of Batumi. The port was the keystone of the future expanded Russian Oil industry. For Russian oil barons, Batumi was the long-awaited gateway to the world; access to both the Far East and the West. How would the oil of Baku reach Batumi? The oil would eventually traverse the Republic of Georgia via the Rothschild-financed Transcaucasus railroad.

After visiting Batumi, did our mystery Rothschild proceed on to Tflis to celebrate the passing of the Treaty of San Stefano with the Grand Duke, offering a wine toast to the future of Russian oil within the confines of the royal palace. Did Rothschild have intimacy with the pretty, willing laundress employed by the Grand Duke? If so, such an innocent affair would have dramatic effects on the future of Russia oil and the Russian people.

Did the Rothschild-infused laundress returned to Gori, to the employ of her wine merchant employer? Did Stalin's mother and Yakov Egnatschvili quietly raise a Rothschild infant.Did Josef Stalin named his first son, Yakov (Jacob) because it was the name of the wine merchant of Gori or because Yakov was also the name of the father of our unknown Rothschild? (Coincidently, Yakov was the Hebrew name of Baron James de Rothschild- patriarch of the French branch of the Rothschild family.)

It was no coincidence that Stalin worked for the Rothschilds? In fact, Stalin,according to Simon Montefiore, was funded by the Rothschilds! Was Stalin a "revolutionary", an enemy of captalism and all that the Rothschilds symbolized or a hidden,clever Rothschild "plant"? Were the Rothschilds funding a "revolutionary" or were they funding their secret weapon against Tsarist control of Russian oil? I suggest that Josef Stalin's rise in communist Russian politics was a Rothschild coup aimed at monopolizing the entire Russian oil industry. Secrecy is the Rothschild modus operandi. The secret to Rothschild success and longevity is ruthlessness and secrecy. Initially bankers to the Russian royal family, the Rothschilds, eventually became their executioners, using puppets with hidden affiliations to execute their agenda. Once the Romanovs were removed and their man,Stalin, placed at the helm of Russian power, the Rothschild empire would enslave the peoples of Central Asia and exploit the natural resources beneath their feet for many years. The Rothschilds are never afraid of nationalization as long as they quietly control the policies of the countries through money supply- a Rothschild expertise.

So which Rothschild may have fathered Stalin?

Edmond de Rothschild of the Paris branch of the Rothschild bank is,IMHO, the most plausible candidate.

Edmond, the youngest son of James (Yakov) de Rothschild was the go to guy when it came to globetrotting.He did much of the legwork for the French Rothshilds who ran the family's oil business. Edmond travelled the sea in style in the latest ocean-going yacht of his day.

[Note:The yacht was designed by the famous Thornycroft Shipbuilding Company, which had designed the first torpedo boat. The Rothschild sea-going yacht was a converted Torpedo boat. The Torpedo boat was first used in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 by the Russian navy. Did the French Rothschilds have anything to do with the Russians gaining naval superiority against the Turks with Thornycroft's torpedo boat? Did the Rothschilds have something to gain from Russian victory?]

Unlike the Russian explorer,Przhevalsky, Edmond was a heterosexual. In 1878, he was newly married. He is also well-known for keeping a mistress. So, he wasn't necessarily faithful in marriage.

Physically, Stalin's physique was more reflective of Edmond de Rothschild than that of the Georgian boxer/merchant Yakov Egnataschvili.

Was Edmond de Rothschild capable of installing an illegitimate son as dictator of Soviet Russia? He was certainly well-connected in the Russian government.His family funded Russia.Edmond's brother, Alphonse, strategically married his daughter to the Russian banker, Ephrussi of St. Petersburg.

It is also plausible that Edmond Rothschild may have known the employer of Stalin's mother. Rothschild was also a famous wine enthusiast.The French Rothschilds own some of the finest vineyards in the world. It could easily be imagined how Yakov Egnatashvili, the Jewish Georgian wine merchant would jump at the chance to host an esteemed Rothschild.

So the question remains.

Was Edmond de Rothschild,indeed, a guest in the home of a wealthy wine merchant in Gori or the Tflis palace of the Viceroy of the Caucasus? Can Rothschild be placed in either location nine months prior to Stalin's birth on December 21,1878?

The time of conception for Josef Stalin appears to be around March 18, 1878. This is a curiosity in itself as March 21 is the Vernal Equinox.(With the leap year scheme used in the Western calendar the time of the vernal equinox ranges over 53 hours within 19-21 March) Was the conception part of a mystical ceremony? The Grand Duke Michael Nicholaevich was steeped in mysticism. The Rothschilds are suspected of being among the mysterious group- the Illuminati. The Vernal Equinox is the beginning of renewal, new beginning. Was Josef Stalin created for a new age of Illuminati rule? According to my research, Hitler too, was conceived in a sex ritual on a day auspicious to the Sabbatean-Frankist Illuminati.Is this hard to believe? Probably so, but don't forget the subject matter. What is being investigated here is the hidden history of a secret organization- The Sabbatean-Frankist Illuminati.