“The idea of a concentration camp is excellent.”
About This Quote
On ideas of eradicating 'counter-revolutionaries and traitors' in Estonia, as quoted in Stalin: A Biography (2004) by Robert Service, p. 158; also in Bol'shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912-1927, p. 36.
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