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Article: STALIN'S TRAGIC, DEADLY LEGACY ENDURES.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2003
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Byline: MASHA LIPMAN
MOSCOW -- Fifty years ago this week, Russia was delivered from the long nightmare of Josef Stalin. The man who murdered his compatriots by the millions, who for three decades immersed his country in bloody terror, was finally gone.
It was the end of a reign under which every man and woman knew that he or she could at any time of the day or night be arrested, tortured and killed or sent to a concentration camp. Swept by deadly fear, Soviet people worshiped their ruler. They sacrificed neighbors, wives, husbands, mothers and fathers to Stalin. Denouncing your colleagues and relatives to the authorities in the hope of extending your own ...