maybe he was rationalizing his own fate, like Rubashov in Koestlers "Darkness at noon". A common response by those arrested during Stalin's purges is said to h

maybe he was rationalizing his own fate, like Rubashov in Koestlers "Darkness at noon". A common response by those arrested during Stalin's purges is said to have been "this is a all a mistake, it will be sorted out soon"...