re: #108 Dianna

No, he wasn’t.

Socialism in One Country was a slogan, not a policy.

Th eway he ran his country - he could give Hitler a run for hismoney for repression.TheNKVD (also known at various times as teh Cheka, GPU) was omnipresent.

“In the USSR today, the only time a man feels free to talk, is at night, softly, under the covers, to his wife”.
An unknonw writer in 1937