“Even Stalin didn’t run death camps. He was more into the re-education thing. And if it took 30 years at hard labor to re-educate you, so be it.”
You need to bust out your copy of Gulag Archipelago and re-read it. For crying out loud, he executed his own soldiers returning from WWII least they start talking about what they had seen in free countries.
Roads to Moscow is a great Al Stewart song that is the chronicle of such a man, on that last. It is said he read 40 books researching the song. Great acoustic guitar work as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOx1qNUMnCc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_to_Moscow