To: aristeides
He hung on for a long time though despite people who wanted him gone in the inner circle( other than Molotov and Beria he changed inner circle members fairly often).
11 posted on
01/15/2003 4:04:58 PM PST by
weikel
To: weikel
For a dictator, the trick is to make your underlings fear and mistrust each other more than they do you.
12 posted on
01/15/2003 4:12:12 PM PST by
Argus
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