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March 02, 2006
The gentle nature of bureaucracies
While I ate dinner last night I watched the beginning of a television program about Nikita Khrushchev coming into the 20th Communist Party congress and speaking out against Stalin.
According to the Wikipedia article on Khrushchev, this guy's rival candidate for the top spot in the USSR ended up getting executed a few short months after Khrushchev won. Khrushchev's children were on this documentary explaining how scared Dad was about making his big Stalin speech.
Funny how this guy worked, and how he ascended to the head of what billed itself as a people's republic, a state for the working man.
Posted by Mark at March 2, 2006 06:59 PM
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