“Once they had seized power in Russia, the Bolsheviks began to direct all of their energy and all of the country’s wealth toward a single goal: to stay in power, to keep power in their hands. Hence the instant rise of the Great Terror, the suppression and destruction of not only actual but even potential, possible dissent or resistance. Lenin started it. Stalin, who seized supreme power by means of incredible cunning and a gangster’s perfidy was obsessed day and night with crushing everyone under his dictatorial boot. Stalin didn’t care which of his closest associates from his inner circle to send to their deaths-let them all live in constant fear. It’s an old gangster trick: beat up your own, so that others will fear you as well.”
Vladimir Rott, “In Defiance of Fate Book 1 Joy From Sadness”, 2009.
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