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Originally Posted by icarus
I wouldn't say they accepted Stalin, but lived in constant abject fear. The Black Marias were out every night knocking on doors. Stalin would getting standing ovations for an hour in length because the first people in crowd to stop clapping would go missing that very night. Read the Gulag Archipelago--the full version, not the abridged version--and you'll get an the picture of how bad things got in the Soviet Union. It is an astonishing read.
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I'm sorry but I disagree, Stalin was worshiped by many in his time and to this day. As is Mao and to a lesser degree Hitler.