“The men who surrounded Stalin quickly figured out the rules of the chief’s game and started playing up to him in every way they could, sniffing out suitable “enemies” in their own midst and helping destroy them. Under such arrangement, those who witnessed and participated in the “purges” at the top could not stay alive for long. They “knew too much” and therefore had to be destroyed. The whole thing started to look more and more like a madhouse, a universal insanity… Yet Bernard Shaw and other Western liberals sang the praises of the new regime, their earnest enthusiasm brought on by sudden blindness. The world had never known anything like that before, and no one could believe that such an irrational, bloody way of life could become the foundation for state policies.”
Vladimir Rott, “In Defiance of Fate Book 1 Joy from Sadness”, 2009.
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