Lisa Lieberman’s Reviews > Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets > Status Update

Why did't we put Stalin on trial? I'll tell you why. In order to condemn Stalin, you'd have to condemn your friends and relatives along with him. . . "Aunt Olga, why did you do it?" "Show me an honest person who survived Stalin's time." Then there was Uncle Pavel who served in the NKVD in Siberia. When it comes down to it, there is no such thing as chemically pure evil.