Stalin would sign pages and pages of names for execution before going off for a nice weekend at the dacha, just because, let's say for expediency. You cannot r

Stalin would sign pages and pages of names for execution before going off for a nice weekend at the dacha, just because, let's say for expediency. You cannot rationalize away the horrors of 20th century Russia, certainly not with these bullet points. So we killed 30 million people, but look! Sputnik!