His ear? Lol
He was Georgian.
He was Georgian, ie the only true Caucasians.
Perhaps not dispositive but Stalin was once a seminarian in the Orthodox Church.
Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian.
Well, beyond Stalin not even being Slavic much less Russian, writings about Hitler’s foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop already made clear this preoccupation of Hitler’s. Hitler was convinced the Soviet leadership was predominantly Jewish, while Ribbentrop returning from negotiations in Moscow had to inform him that there were very few Jews in important political positions in Stalin’s USSR.
Hitler greatly admired Stalin, thought it was a shame they had to be mortal enemies, Hitler hoped perhaps had Germany defeated the Soviet Union, he could have used Stalin to rule over his “puppet” regime in Russia.
Hitlers real fear was that his jewish roots would be discovered https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-was-a-quarter-jewish-597966
So did Golda Meir:
And Benajmin Netanyahu: