Stalin. We remember together. Starikov N.V.

The disputes around Joseph Stalin do not stop, and the assessments of his activity are diametrically opposite. There is no statesman who would be attributed to so many other people's statements and other people's crimes. Increasingly, his phrase is recalled: “I know that after death a bunch of garbage will be applied to my grave. But the wind of history will ruthlessly dispel it. ” Whether it sounded exactly this way or remained like this in folk memory is not so important. The foresight comes true, and we are beginning to be incredibly sorting out this extraordinary and ambiguous historical personality.

there are many questions. Was Stalin a despot in a relationship with his associates and subordinates? What caused pre -war repressions?

Did he really prevent the army with his inept leadership? How did he build relations with cultural figures? Why did contemporaries have a witty person? Why did the “perestroika” falsifiers of history take up the memoirs of Stalin's associates?

to answer numerous questions, a well -known modern publicist, public figure, researcher Nikolai Starikov proposes to appeal to the documents and memoirs of those who knew Stalin personally.