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In fact, this question—“Did they believe in what they were doing?”—is actually a small part of a much larger question, one which goes to the heart of the nature of the Soviet Union itself: Did any of its leaders ever believe in what they were were doing?

Book is astonishingly harsh and fierce. It perturbs the audience with audacious cruelty due to the horrid nature of the acts it portrays. Backed up with a high historicity and a deep concern with facts.