I think that is going to be the most profound
conclusion to
the investigation of the stalin archives I've talked with several scholars already who agree
completely when they examine these manuscript and they see first of all
a he truly believed in this
I mean this a not that somebody who believes in something isn't able to become pragmatic
and opportunistic and set his beliefs system these were his beliefs he wasn't secretly
a a capitalist
who just made a show of all of this
he believed in it
two he was not a madman
he was not the paranoid
I would say he was more paranoid no less perhaps than Richard nixon
or many other people who've been in government
who function in a normal way in a normal society
he was not criminal in the sense that
he was a personal criminal he didn't
shoot people
he didn't hit people he didn't
of himself torture people not like ivan the terrible who threw people out the window
%uh who killed his own son
there are people trying to blame stalin for the suicide of his wife but there's no evidence
that he shot her
maybe she died out of despair but
how many wives
die how many husbands
commit suicide
he was a father he had three children
his daughter brought home a Jewish husband
he didn't like jews
but he tolerated a jew
%uh he eventually he got her to a a
to divorce the man
but I could name
countless instances of exactly the same thing going on here in the united states in the
nineteen thirties
in which a wealthy non-jewish girl brings home the Jewish husband to the horror
of the family
no different
no we can't understand stalin in this way we want to understand it that way because
we'd love to think of this is a great perversion of history
it is not a perversion of history that's the whole point and what you said is that he simply
took the
logic to the on to me
because she was fearless
and because he truly was nietzschean man
he truly was a man
who did not believe that he was constrained by any moral law
because all moral laws were relative
you bring to mind something that it is in your book
his famous dictum no man no problem no man no problem
but he was doing it
if i understand correctly
whatever he did he did it because in his mind's and logical requirement
for the growth of the great socialist Russian state
well he was
yes and to that extent you could say he was blind
he was blind
he didn't analyze the correctly
and he was blind to
pragmatic solutions to the problem which would from time to time be brought to him in the
people brought them to a would normally be shot
That would discourage oyou
from bringing problems to him but let me ask you this
wasn't George wasn't the FBI shown a document by some
FBI agents in in in the scottsdale Arizona about the Arabs who are going to fly
how did it happen that there were no precautions taken
how did that happen
Oh bureaucracy
come on this is part
of a normal society this isn't a particular deviation on the part of of what was going
on there what
was going on there was the
institution of the ideology
that guided
that that that that became the driving engine
of that society
without which that society couldn't function that's what stalin understood
and therefore he could not tolerate any solutions to problems that in any way
endangered
the credibility of that ideology
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