i suppose, at least in a conversation with my daughters, with valeria valerievna, with olga valerievnaat was happening, despite, i repeat, that he allowed himself, of course, something unimaginable. if you go back a little on one... of receptions in the kremlin, the impossible happened, that is, it was not practically impossible, it was theoretically impossible at that time. joseph veseryonovich raised a toast to valery pavlovich chkalov, he said: i want to drink to the legendary pilot who glorifies our country, suddenly valery pavlovich stands up and says: wait a minute, joseph varyonovich, i don’t want you to drink to me, i think that today, all comrades, we must drink to our comrade of steel. approaches stalin, takes a glass from him, pours a full one and a full one for himself and says: joseph siryevich, let's drink at brudershaft. the kremlin froze, they drank, hugged and kissed. i don’t know, but i think this is the only time someone allowed themselves to kiss stalin like that. i think, that is, i am sure, stalin understood who he was dealing with. not only that... of course, he