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It’s a trip reading about Stalin’s Great Purge of potential opponents in the Soviet Union (100 years later).
Good book so far, and a reminder that instruments of the state are always subject to the vagaries of those in charge (a particularly fraught vocation when you work for a terror-inducing authoritarian like Stalin that sends agents door-to-door ripping people from their homes for secret trials).
— Jan 26, 2026 08:28AM
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Good book so far, and a reminder that instruments of the state are always subject to the vagaries of those in charge (a particularly fraught vocation when you work for a terror-inducing authoritarian like Stalin that sends agents door-to-door ripping people from their homes for secret trials).
