05-15-2019, 03:24 PM
Still -- the Second World War was extremely destructive in the Soviet Union, even if the physical destruction was heaviest in Belarus and Ukraine, both of which went fully under Nazi rule. Such is Crisis, like it or not. WWII was a Crisis for Russia even if it was generated elsewhere.
Then one gets a reset. Stalin was unable to initiate purges as he did in the 1930s, and by 1953 his ferocity was repudiated in practice.
Rebuilding the wrecked western Soviet Union looks like a 1T activity.
Then one gets a reset. Stalin was unable to initiate purges as he did in the 1930s, and by 1953 his ferocity was repudiated in practice.
Rebuilding the wrecked western Soviet Union looks like a 1T activity.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.