Interview Transcripts
"...the vast majority of people in the country didn't know enough to really get a good picture of what he was doing, and...he was the leader of their country in the worst war in Russian history, a war that they won at an enormous cost of people and economic assets." |
Adam Hochschild
Lecturer at the University of California- Berkeley Author of The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin Email Interview- 3/5/15 "He did effectively win World War II for the Allies in Europe, and he did preside over the industrialization of the USSR, but it is possible to imagine both things happening with far less loss of life." |
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"...the famine led the deaths of millions of people in peacetime, which could have been prevented if Stalin had been honest; if he had made the feeding of the populace his first priority, probably, he would have saved the lives of the several million people who died." |
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"Nothing justifies mass murder and imposing terror on a whole people. What successes Stalin had came at a brutal price imposed on the Soviet people." |
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"...the Putin leadership cultivates a kind of "soft Stalin" as a strong leader and victor in World War II. They do not exactly express support for his repressions, rather they choose to make that side of history more vague and ambiguous." |
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"...generations of Soviet citizens grew up feeling very proud and lucky to have been born in a country that provided cradle-to-grave medical care, free education, and the guarantee of employment and housing. They won loads of Olympic medals and put a man into space first..." |
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