in this
world that I had nightmares writing this book, and now on publication they have only just stopped. And I
know this was publicized over a year ago in England. Nightmares, why?

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, AUTHOR, "STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR:"
Stalin was always -- Stalin was always obsessed with how people behaved at the supreme moment,
execution. And though he never attended any torture, any executions himself, he always wanted to know
how did they -- how did they behave at the supreme moment. And so obviously I had to pay attention to
some of the stories of how people behaved as they were about to be shot. And some were brave, some spat
at their executioners, some died praising Stalin, and some just lost it and wept and kissed the bootsinner circles, the
inner world. I mean, we never knew any of this stuff before. And I must say, the result is unsettling. It is a
picture of -- it`s a chronicle of like debauchery, depravity, sadism, murder, luxury, power, privilege. And
these were really the most diabolical people ever to run a country, except the Nazis, I think.

LAMB: I want to show a picture of Nadia Stalin and ask you who she was and how many wives
did Stalin have?

MONTEFIORE: Yes. Nadia was Stalin`s much younger wife, 30 years younger than him. And
there she is on her deathbed. And she was the child of Bolshevik -- a Bolshevik family. Stalin may well
have had an affair with her mother when she was 3 years old, and Stalin had known her for all