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The Secrets of Statecraft

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Stalin's Innermost Thoughts

In 1953, he was called the most famous and at the same time the most unknown person in the world. How does a historian like you go about getting to the real Stalin under those circumstances? Well, the real Stalin is his life work, which is this accumulation and exercise of power over life and death over hundreds of millions of people. That's real and that's who Stalin was. He became Stalin in the process of acquiring that power and exercising it.

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