[notdownwidems]

Stalin wanted power for power’s sake, and so long as someone wasn’t a threat to him, he largely didn’t care

Not so much, Stalin ruthlessly exterminated millions of people who were utterly and absolutely devoted not just to the communist party of the Soviet Union, but to Stalin personally, just out of a sense of vengeance and hatred.

[dfwgator]

The worst crime you could commit in the Soviet Union was to be more popular than Stalin.