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"As the emigre scholars Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr Nekrich point out, it was Lenin and Trotsky who were the first Europeans to use the term 'concentration camp' and then use the device to such effect."

🤓 Incorrect! The term concentration camp actually originates from the Spanish-Cuban Ten Years' War (1868-1878) where Spaniards created 'special' camps to detain Cuban civilians.

"As she climbed the stairs to slip the letter under Bukharin's door, she saw Stalin's boots ahead of her. He was clearly headed for Bukharin's room. She gave Stalin the letter and asked him to deliver it; for a moment, at least, one of the greatest murderers of the twentieth century played mailman for a young girl in love."

starting off with a massacre was a choice