Long Lost Stalin Memoirs Reveal The Heart Behind The Butcher’s Apron
Nearly 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Empire’s Iron Curtain, historians are still uncovering treasure troves of the regime’s pertinent documents. The latest such discovery? Diary memoirs written by Joseph Stalin during the final years of his life.
With entries entitled “I Kill Because I Love” and “Sending You to Freeze to Death in Siberia Hurts Me Far More than It Will Hurt You,” the infamous dictator reveals the hidden humanity that fueled his genocidal agenda.
“Insects cannot comprehend why our scientists would dissect them,” a June 1950 entry begins. “Likewise the people of the world are unable to grasp the larger structural picture that requires that I have them killed. I am often quoted as having said that one death is a tragedy and a million deaths is a statistic. But occasionally I do shed a tear after signing the orders that cause a village to be razed. Sometimes it is caused by a loose eyelash, but there is a tear.”
Sergei Ubarov, staff writer for Pravda’s history department, notes that these memoirs are small consolation for a nation still reeling from eighty years of Communist rule. “These sentiments show that though Stalin was less of a monster than we had imagined, it is only to the extant that he is no longer crazed Godzilla but still a really unpleasant Mothra.”
A diary entry from January 25, 1953, just weeks before Stalin’s death, gives perhaps the most revealing glimpse into the heart behind the butcher’s apron:
“I am not long for this world, but am at peace. I only regret that I had but forty million lives to extinguish for my country.”
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