Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

When everyone was seeing the elderly Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, they hadn’t any idea that they were seeing a 24-year-old guy from Dagestan.​

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The body doubles idea became successful but soon the first body double died in a bomb accident.

Then after they made sure to have multiple body doubles of Stalin.

One of his body doubles was Felix Dadaev — he had a different fate.

He remained silent and concealed the truth even from his family. As the identified body doubles of Joseph Stalin are Rashid and Dadaev. Rashid even portrayed the role of Stalin in a propaganda film.

In 2008, 88-year-old Felix Dadaev got permission from Russian President Vladimir Putin to reveal his identity, he came forward to tell his story by having written a book.

Then after he also appeared in a 2014 documentary on Stalin’s last days on German Television.
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