No, Stalin isn’t mad. He has something grand in mind, and he sometimes loses his head. It’s terrible. I will make no revelations. I’ll do nothing that could harm the USSR. There is nothing else but the cause of the USSR. He noted that when he put his hand in his pocket to take out a cigarette I watched him closely. You distrust me, and it’s only natural. Yet we’d be happy, you and I, to die for the same cause. Me: “Not exactly the same.” I speak of socialism. He answers that the road to socialism passes through the might of the Soviet state. I’m worn out. I could be killed on any street
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