—Over the course of these past twenty years, we’ve found out a lot about ourselves. Made a lot of discoveries. We learned that Stalin is secretly our hero. Dozens of books and movies have been made about him, which people avidly read and watch. And debate. Half of the country dreams of Stalin—and if half of the country is dreaming of Stalin, he’s bound to materialize, you can be sure of it. They’ve dragged all of the evil dead back out of hell: Beria, Yezhov…They’ve started writing that Beria was a talented administrator, they want to rehabilitate him, because under his leadership, the Russian
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