re: #297 HappyWarrior

Yeah, that’s interesting too. I believe the Stalin era especially had a lot of suspicion in careerists who were seen as merely using the party to move up in their careers rather than loyalty to the party. It seems ot me that one of the interesting ironies is that often the torturers often became the tortured and furthermore many had been tortured themselves in the revolutionary days.

Yeah, Stalin’s inner circle was composed not so much of loyal advisers as men who every bit as blood-thirsty and immoral as himself, but joined in their mutual fear of what would happen to them if they were the target of the man’s displeasure. Beria probably has entire level of Hell devoted to himself.