Stalin was Georgian—Ossetian, to be exact.
And as to Walter Duranty’s falsified reporting, besides his being a fellow-traveller, I’ve also read a suggestion that the OGPU (or NKVD, or whatever the KGB’s predecessor was called then) “had the goods” on him.
Surely, Gentlemen, Stalin was Georgian/Ossetian.
However, the debate between fellow Freeper Buffaloguy and me had been about Krushchev’s heritage, not Stalin’s. Sorry.
I regret any misunderstanding :-)