Poor Stallman

I'm so sad right now.

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mistreated and beaten by an authoritarian drunkard dad in his youth

A standard way to become the abuser of your childhood, even though if I remember correctly his mother left his father and took young Stalin with her.

preferring to fight to freedom instead
that free spirited leader

This won't pass as an unqualified assertion. Early on he used kidnappings and as you say robberies. Even though he might have been "free spirited" enough to reject church doctrine, he was not above obtaining what he wanted through force and violence. His brand of revolution was never to depose the authorities to free the people, even though that was the marketing spiel. It was to depose the authorities and replace them with new communist authorities, him among them. So it seems to me that you are stretching "free spirited" quite a bit to apply it to him.