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Stalinism With a Human Face
The memory of unfairness of Stalin's collectivization and the sensibilities of a young man growing up in the Russian South. I think shaped him almost to a greater degree than this Soviet ideology did. Both his grandfathers barely escaped repressions. One wasn't interrogated, one was tortured. He thought that socialism with human face was something that was still a goal and it was never reached.