I think his goal was to break their spirit and getting them fed with secondary, right? And given the fact that they stopped complaining because they're dead, he got what he wanted. I don't see how you do that without either massive reeducation or really just crushing people's spirits. So like a forced homogeneity. This still remains in Russian culture to this day. He broke with Lenin because he wanted socialism in one country,. That was his vision, right? The other big thing, a big element of Soviet culture and the Soviet mythology is called Jugas - which means man of steel. Like other Russians, there is this pride in ruthlessness and this kind of like, I

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