Here’s a question: Who made Stalin Stalin? There’s the problem of responsibility… Should you only put people on trial if they actually murdered and tortured people or: should it also be the informants… the people who took the children of “enemies of the people” away from their relatives and sent them to orphanages… the drivers who transported the arrested… the cleaning women who washed the floors after people were tortured… the director of the railways that conveyed political prisoners to the north in cattle cars… the tailors who sewed camp guards’ coats. The doctors who did their dental work,
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