Ya sluzhil v okhrane Stalina, ili Opyt dokumentalnoy mifologii

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"Most people probably - or hopefully - know that Joseph Stalin murdered almost 20 million of his own citizens. Thus it's hard to view him as having any humanity. Here in "Ya sluzhil v okhrane Stalina, ili Opyt dokumentalnoy mifologii" (called "I Was Stalin's Bodyguard" in English), we get to meet one of the brutal dictator's confidants. Through this man's stories, Big Joe sounds almost like any other person, not the type whom you'd expect to commit genocide. But also, we get to see how the Soviet Union under Stalin became very much like Nazi Germany:..."