Kees Boterbloem
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“Having tolerated religion somewhat in the 1920s, Stalin's new socialist society would no longer abide Christianity or Islam.”
― Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
― Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
“In the course of the First Five-Year Plan, production aims were upped to impossible heights. The result was chaotic, and many of the local political leaders, factory bosses, planners, engineers, foremen, and even shop floor workers developed ways to exaggerate their accomplishments.”
― Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
― Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
“In absolute numbers of people killed, the quarter century of tyranny (1929–53) of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) over the Soviet Union ranks as the second deadliest regime in history, after that of his disciple Mao Zedong (1893–1976), who was responsible for even more deaths in Communist China between 1949 and 1976.”
― Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
― Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
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