Stalin Terror: And what about the people?
In anti -Stalinist rhetoric, which began with Trotsky, continued by Khrushchev, etc., there is a deep ideological meaning: all the bloody crimes of that era were dumped on one single person. Stalin became an antichrist, and all the rest are clear and fluffy angels-victims. In the best case, anonymous heroist sadists are usually remembered. But history, including And the sole dictatorship, the people ultimately make. And what is he? A. Akhmatova once in the 1950s.