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PROLOGUE STALIN DIED IN March 1953. The official story says it was a stroke. He collapsed at his dacha, alone, and laid there for hours while everyone around him was too scared to enter the room. By the time they finally called a doctor, it was already too late. He died a few days later. Millions of people mourned. Some of them meant it. Most of them didn’t have a choice. The Soviet state turned his death into a national tragedy. They held parades. They printed tributes. They aired endless speeches about how much he had done for the people. But behind the scenes, the men who worked under him, the ones who survived the purges, the show trials, and the prison camps, they weren’t crying. They...
How a Man Becomes a Monster
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