ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the personal crisis in Stalin's life, which was for him an event of the greatest importance. It is evident that he did his utmost to prevent his private affairs from attracting attention. But he could not prevent gossip, and there was a great deal of gossip, not only in the Kremlin, but more or less everywhere in Moscow. The gossip related to the preparations for his divorce from Rosa Kaganovitch member of the Politburo. Rosa Kaganovitch, on her marriage, retired at Stalin's request from her work in the propagandist department of the Central Committee. Still young, and very handsome, she spent whole days with Nadiejda's two children. On the eve of Munich, Stalin, who in practice was in control of all the domestic politics of the USSR, was already prepared to direct its foreign politics, and even to orientate the coming military operations in the sense of his political conceptions.
