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Article: `The Guilt of Stalin . . . Is Enormous and Unforgivable'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 3, 1987
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Following are excerpts from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's
speech today, as provided by the official Soviet news agency Tass and
The Associated Press.
On the Abuses of Stalin
The period after Lenin-that is, the '20s and the '30s-occupied a
special place in the history of the Soviet state. Radical social
changes were carried out in some 15 years. . . . Those were years of
hard work to the limits of human endurance, of sharp and multifarious
struggle. Industrialization, collectivization, the cultural
revolution, strengthening of the multinational state, consolidation
of the Soviet Union's international positions, new forms of managing
the economy and all social affairs-all this occurred ...