Hit Stalin And Lived

Press, Volume C, Issue 29436, 11 February 1961, Page 13

Hit Stalin And Lived

(Rec. 10 p.m.) GENEVA, February 10. At least one man hit Stalin and is still alive. He is Khariton Chavichvily, a man who has known conspiracy, revolution and terror, and who is now living in Geneva at the age of 75. British United Press reports. In a Geneva cafe, just a stone’s throw from his present lodging, he plotted in 1908 with Lenin for the end of the reign of Nicholas 11. Tsar of all the Russians, and for the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty. Three years earlier he had clashed with Stalin, a fellowGeorgian. He had spent three nights

arguing with Stalin, a Bolshevik, and Ramishvili, a Menshevik, at Tchiatouri, in Georgia. The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks had split at the Communist congress in London in 1903 because the Bolsheviks advocated force and the Mensheviks advised peaceful methods for introducing communism. “Stalin roughed up a good friend of mine, so I hit him in the face.” said Chavichvily. “But Stalin only smiled back at me.” Chavichvily, who considers himself the last of the Mensheviks, is still denouncing and protesting. Now it is not the Romanovs, but communism which. long ago, he wanted to build.