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Indeed, the Stalinist system ate its own enablers. Not just Beria, but his predecessors Yezhov and Yagoda were monsters in their own right.
by flyinghamster 7y ago
Indeed, the Stalinist system ate its own enablers. Not just Beria, but his predecessors Yezhov and Yagoda were monsters in their own right.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI think I read that Khrushchev wrote that the thing he was most proud of was that after he was done officials in disfavor were merely demoted and sent away rather than murdered. I think also read that in the west we think of there being a 20 year peace between WWI and WWII. Where in eastern Europe that period was one of intercine ethno-national conflict.