Seeing as you are from Estonia, you and your family was related to this, and felt it on your body. However, looking at it from a neutral perspective, also having read a good amount of books and watched what there is to get about Stalin, you will see that he created a cult around himself, as the god, and father of the Sovietunion. The void left there after Lenin killed the tsar, and the tsarevich, along with the rest of the family, was filled by Stalin. With the abolishment of religion Stalin WAS the new god.
The fear during the waves of terror created a people that would do anything for their great leader. The fact that he managed to beat Hitler, although with the cost of 9 million soldiers, was also a great feat, in which we should be pretty happy about, still to this day. Takes a dictator to beat a dictator.
The fear during the waves of terror created a people that would do anything for their great leader. The fact that he managed to beat Hitler, although with the cost of 9 million soldiers, was also a great feat, in which we should be pretty happy about, still to this day. Takes a dictator to beat a dictator.
