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HE [Stalin] had created a Party that would hold power forever. HE had created a Party distinguished from the parties of all time, a Party that was not only a symbol of the state, but also the sole power in the state, a Party that made belonging to it not only the chief merit of its members but the content and meaning of their lives.

— Sep 03, 2012 09:59PM

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— Sep 07, 2012 09:01PM

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His [Sharok's] other job was harder, but there he was destroying the people he had hated since childhood, the people who had destroyed Russia -- the Old Bolsheviks, the so-called Leninist Guard -- and at the same time all the Jews, Latvians, and Poles who had make the October Revolution.

— Sep 06, 2012 09:50PM

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And so at the February and march Plenum of 1937, Comrade Stalin officially declared war -- which he had begun ten years earlier -- against his own people.

According to scholars, in early 1937 there were five million people in prisons and camps. Between January 1937 and December 1938, another seven million were arrested. Of them, one million were shot and two million died in the camps.

— Sep 05, 2012 09:31PM