re: #50 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
He cannot be written off as an ideologue though. E.g. at around 2003 in a letter to Wheatcroft he posited that Stalin didn’t have an intent to murder Ukrainians as such - which goes against the argument that the famine was legally a genocide. Basically, he changed his mind, which ideologues usually don’t.
I agree that he’s not an ideologue, but the “no intent to murder per se” argument gets a bit hair-splitty for my tastes. I have no doubt that Staline wanted to weaken them by killing a sufficient number to bring the rest into line.