Stalin - Which of these two sources is more reliable?

only someone emphatic about Stalin would say this and I think this has obviously written in this way by Stalin himself. The statement “And when the woman I love provides me with a child the first word it shall utter will be Stalin”, I find it unbelievable that a small baby first word will be Stalin I think this is inconceivable. Also Stalin would have read this speech before it was made public, so he could agree to it and allow it to be published or make amendments to it and he would want it to praise him like it does.

I think this speech was written to be propaganda for Stalin because he wanted to portray an image of himself to the public. He tries to portray himself as a god like figure that has came to Russia and drive it into the ways of the future. He wanted the people of Russia to see him as a strong revolutionary figure, who should be thanked by everyone and loved by all.

I think that source F is unreliably but less so than source E. Source F is written by a Bukharin who is in exile in France. Bukharin is an old ally Stalin’s of Stalin in 1926 when Stalin was climbing to power. Stalin & Bukharin worked together against Kamenev and Zinoviev, so they could get them expelled from the communist party. After this in 1928 Stalin turned on Bukharin and in 1929 gets him expelled from the communist party. So as you can see Bukharin must know Stalin quite well having been an ally to him and an enemy of him. So this means that his source is reliably because it has not been influenced by the government, but still an enemy of Stalin has written it so it is bound to be exaggerated. So this source is more reliably than source E because it has been written by a person who was an ally of Stalin’s and an enemy of his, so he must know him well.

Neither of these sources are reliably because all sources are a person’s point of view, and a person’s point of view cannot be completely neutral it will always be biased. So source E is biased supporting Stalin because a person who supports Stalin has written it. Source F is biased because a person Stalin has betrayed has written it, lied to, had exiled from Russia and wants them killed, so he will be against Stalin. None of these sources can be completely believed because people with different points of view have written then and no source can be completely neutral. So, I think F is a more reliably source because although it has been written by a person who is against Stalin, but he also knows him very well, having been involved in his rise to power for five years.