The kind of society that Joseph grew up in was rough since Gori was a very rough and dangerous town. The men of the town did street brawling and this could last for hours on end. When Joseph was young he witnessed and public hanging of two criminals and was traumatised from the experience and from then he began to hate the tsarist regime. Joseph also went to a church school and he was very enthusiastic about this. Joseph lived in the 1800's and that was a dangerous time as Hitler lived in this time era also.