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Stalin's Shadow Over Perestroika |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Vladimir Petrov |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 6,219 Words, 40,038 Characters |
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Although Joseph Stalin has been dead for thirty-six years his enigmatic persona continues to fascinate everyone in the Soviet Union. During his lifetime, he was uniformly glorified in all the languages of his vast country and vilified, perhaps less uniformly, in the same languages. He is gone now but not forgotten, for he created a system that conditioned not only the behavior but also the thinking of his subjects. Those who refused to think his way perished. For a quarter of a century Stalin was the main, if not the only, symbol of national unity. When he died, so many people felt orphaned that his successors appealed to the nation "not to panic." Those who hated him found their hate outlasted the man; he was unforgettable. Some years after his death, when one of his successors, Nikita Kh...
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...er Stalin's role in history serves as a useful barometer, as an indicator of the progress in freeing the people's minds in that country, and the best guarantee available that Stalinism will not be resurrected. For if it returns--in whatever form--the process of Soviet integration in the community of democratic nations will suffer a major setback, with far-reaching international repercussions.
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