H. N. Brailsford, Reynold's News (3 December 1939) , as quoted in The Russia Complex : The British Labour Party and the Soviet Union (1977) by Bill Jones, (p.41), and The Last Dissenter: H.N. Brailsford and His World,by F. M. Leventhal (p. 269).
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Stalin...[has] compelled us to pass the judgement we had hitherto refused to register. His Russia is a totalitarian state, like another, as brutal towards the rights of others, as careless of its plighted word. If this man ever understood the international creed of socialism, he long ago forgot it. In this land the absolute power has wrought its customary effects of corruption.

— H. N. Brailsford

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Stalin...[has] compelled us to pass the judgement we had hitherto refused to register. His Russia is a totalitarian state, like another, as brutal towards the rights of others, as careless of its plighted word. If this man ever understood the international creed of socialism, he long ago forgot it. In this land the absolute power has wrought its customary effects of corruption." in the context of "H. N. Brailsford, Reynold's News (3 December 1939) , as quoted in The Russia Complex : The British Labour Party and the Soviet Union (1977) by Bill Jones, (p.41), and The Last Dissenter: H.N. Brailsford and His World,by F. M. Leventhal (p. 269)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Joseph Stalin

About Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 21 December {9 December Old Style} 1879 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism. He was the father of Svetlana Alliluyeva.