A couple of phrases: Stalin vs Lenin
Questions to Leninism “Let's say that Stalin, in my opinion, I do not justify him in any way, but Stalin corrected the mistakes that Lenin made before him from his point of view.” Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs “But there was no real reliability in this person ... Stalin correctly felt flimsy in Lenin, casting, finally a poor understanding of people, no understanding.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn. " In the first circle "