Benjamin Britton’s Reviews > Stalin: Historia y crítica de una leyenda negra > Status Update

“In conclusion, for a historian who cuts the story short in October 1917, it would be quite difficult to see the Bolshevik Party and Stalin as people who ignore moral reasoning; in fact, this would be more applicable to the other side of the conflict.”

“The thesis of Stalin’s anti-Semitism is revealed to be untenable in light of historical and conceptual reflection.”

“At least until 1945, there seemed to be no traces of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, in a country that appeared to Hitler to be, especially after Operation Barbarossa, “Jewry’s greatest servant”.

“One final consideration. During the 20th century, accusations of “genocides” and denunciations of “holocausts” have been dissipated in very different ways.”

“In the Gulag, it has been estimated that in the early 1930s, before the turn of the screw brought on by the murder of Kirov and the intensification of the dangers of war, the annual death rate “was about 4.8 percent of the total prisoner population”.

“Because of the coexistence of objective circumstances and subjective responsibilities, as with society as a whole, the Gulag too failed to overcome the state of emergency.”

“While the opposition abided by the lesson of Lenin and the conspiratorial tradition of Bolshevism, weaving its plans in the shadows, this double game arouses the indignation of Soviet power, which identifies false friends as the most dangerous and slippery enemy: the tragedy is way of their outcome.”