Thanks for the quote and link, I didn't know about his annotations. Makes sense then that he was more a true believer Still I'd think that primarily important

Thanks for the quote and link, I didn't know about his annotations. Makes sense then that he was more a true believer Still I'd think that primarily important thing for him was himself and personal power, and that if he had had to make a choice between ideologies and himself, he'd done what was better for him personally. I wonder if he looked at communism etc more like a powerful tool (or so he thought) for him to use, and then not surprising if he spent time studying it From the article: > show a continuing faith in the spread of communism and "world revolution". That'd almost made him the dictator over the world? Who knows if that might have been a main goal, and communism a tool?