Stalin

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Soviet premier Joseph Stalin installed his high-ranking officials in a network of dachas.

From Salon

Surely, he thinks, Stalin wouldn’t stand for such a travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal

“But when Stalin says ‘play,’ a wise man plays.”

From Salon

Or that Winston Churchill—who in 1919 said Bolshevism should be strangled in its cradle—became Stalin’s puppet 22 years later?

From The Wall Street Journal

In the troika of major figures in the Russian Revolution, Trotsky stood for ideas and Stalin represented power; their predecessor, Vladimir Lenin, had fused the two values as the frowning avatar of communist leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal