Ka kammala wannan magana: A watan Janairu na shekara ta 1905, sojojin gwamnati
masu zanga-zangar da aka yi wa kisan gilla a Saint Petersburg. Ba da daɗewa ba tashin hankali ya yaɗu a Daular Rasha a cikin abin da aka sani da Juyin Juya Halin 1905. Georgia ce ta fi shan wahala. Stalin ya kasance a Baku a watan Fabrairu lokacin da rikicin kabilanci ya barke tsakanin Armeniya da Azeri; akalla mutane 2,000 aka kashe. A fili ya yi tir da "kisan da aka yi wa Yahudawa da Armeniyawa" a matsayin wani ɓangare na ƙoƙarin Czar Nicholas II ya "ƙarfafa gadon sarautarsa mai banƙyama". Stalin ya kafa Bolshevik Battle Squad wanda ya yi amfani da shi don ƙoƙarin nisantar da ƙungiyoyin ƙabilanci masu yaƙi na Baku; ya kuma yi amfani da tashin hankali a matsayin abin rufewa don satar kayan bugawa. A tsakiyar tashin hankali da ke ƙaruwa a duk faɗin Georgia ya kafa ƙarin Battle Squads, tare da Mensheviks suna yin hakan. Kungiyoyin Stalin sun kwashe 'yan sanda da sojoji na gida, sun mamaye wuraren ajiye makamai na gwamnati, kuma sun tara kuɗi ta hanyar ba da kariya ga manyan kasuwancin gida da ma'adanai. Sun kaddamar da hare-hare a kan sojojin Cossack na gwamnati da kuma Tsarist Black Hundreds, suna daidaita wasu ayyukan su tare da 'yan bindiga na Menshevik.