Soviet bureaucracy
Sir.—Further to Philip Ferguson’s letter, it is perhaps pertinent to recall that Lenin, before he died after a long illness, recognised the dangers inherent in the enormous personal power Stalin had accumulated as party secretary. Indeed, he had decided to get rid of Stalin and there is some reason for belief that Stalin, knowing this, actually hastened his demise. With Lenin gone, Stalin set out to destroy Trotsky who, in 1926, was exiled for refusing
to confess to his “errors.” Thereafter Stalin embarked on his tyrannical rule. As Khrushchev reported in 1956, “Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation and patient co-operation with people but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed these concepts . . . was doomed to removal from the collective and to subsequent moral and physical annihilation.”—Yours, etc., GRAHAM RHIND October 13, 1976.
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