Stalin [Theme] Page 6

Stalin took Russia as a country with immense intellectual potential, with the world's best culture, with fantastic enthusiasm of the masses... Stalin 30 years has turned Russia into the most boring and vile country in the world - country in which military five-year pause, with all the nightmares of the war, was seen as a breath of fresh air...

He grinned, as often happens, reading the thoughts. And said:
- The prophecy of Lenin coming true. The first world war created one socialist state. The second world gave birth to the whole camp of socialism... Then the third war? Yes, this third war forever do away with capitalism. How to teach a good Russian proverb: "God loves a Trinity".
All stood in a fragile silence. The country lay in ruins, twenty-six million dead, crippled without number, and he already was thinking about a new World war!

Titan-thinker in the uniform of Generalissimo. This is it now, my friend. From early morning till night thunders his name. It is impossible to walk - the name immediately rush over you from the street loudspeaker of the house it will follow you into the brain of your radio; do not over lunch to open a newspaper - it will rush with all the pages straight into your soup. Tear up the newspaper, turn off the loudspeaker - the name will carry through the wall from the neighbor's radio, it can be heard from behind the door of the restroom when you are locked out of necessity, can't even hide under a blanket in bed - creep there.
But the Koba - behind the curtain. Only in the days of the celebrations the country sees his face. My great friend long understood: the mystery of the mother of greatness in the East. The Asian God is mysterious. Hitler - the Western God. Person submission, a dictator, a mystic Charmer. Koba - Eastern God, hiding in the dark alone. Hitler the mouth. Coba laconic. But each phrase in the weight of the gold. She immediately flies across the country, endlessly quoted, is written on many placards on the streets and in the parks. And the country learns them by heart, as before taught the gospel.
The God-Man Koba!

We, Georgians, conceited people. Not enough for us to be great. We need to constantly see his greatness in the eyes of another. I was with these eyes. Mirror, looking into which, he saw all his long way.