the problem with aleksandr i. solzhenitsyn's quote is everyone thinks it is easy to a stalin hater when stalin was in power. with hindsight of history, post-fdr american anti-ussr propaganda, it is easy to see stalin was the bad guy. but to someone who saw lenin, trotsky etc ruin ussr, stalin was god sent. stalin was making use of the failed system to force it to do something, anything. sure it involved killing millions, but it was arguably better than what the lenin and trotsky's minions did before stalin.
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