“Ain’t it funny how the factory’s doors close? ’Round the time that the school doors close? ’Round the time that the doors of the jail cells Open up to greet you like the reaper?”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/congress.htm
Tldr: In Lenin’s final letters, he said Stalin was rude and that he might not show enough caution using power as Secretary-General
Can one of you beautiful people please post the bone stealer comic. Today is my first day on the internet and I can’t find it
Stalin’s doctors are mentioned to refute the accusation that Stalin was antisemitic. The team of doctors treating him were mostly Jewish, it stayed that way up to his death.
In czarist Russia, doctors (especially Jewish ones) were scapegoated as the reason for royals dying. This was still somewhat true after Stalin’s death, but to a lesser extent.
I hope I am remembering that correctly. I’ll try to find some page numbers from the Losurdo book
Edit: Chapter "The Question of ‘Cosmopolitanism’ ", page 229 onwards