… and he signed personally the death warrents of up to many hundreds of thousands of political opponents during The Great Terror.
A Russian court has rejected a defamation case brought by the huggle-bunny’s grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili against the newspaper, Novaya Gazetta. As Robert Conquest said, after the fall of the USSR, when asked if he wished to review his 1968 book ‘The Great Terror, “I fucking told you so”.
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