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I can well imagine that Machiavellian strategies of that type go on in most politically powerful peoples heads, but as far as I know Stalin never stated anywher
by sbmassey 9y ago
I can well imagine that Machiavellian strategies of that type go on in most politically powerful peoples heads, but as far as I know Stalin never stated anywhere that his aim was to reduce the size of the economy, and the beliefs of everyone under Stalin carrying out the massacres seem to have been true ideological fervour for communist doctrine, so I would chalk it up to ideology personally.
- anigbrowl 9y agoI don't think he wanted to reduce the size of the economy as such, but he certainly seemed to want to reduce the number of people who could effectively oppose him and was willing to tolerate short-term economic setbacks to that end.