The ferocity of battles had brought Hitler to the decision, which he expressed on July, 4 at a military conference in the Belarussian town of Borisov: to destroy Moscow with its inhabitants

In 1940 the Gulag drew 14% of all public investment, that is, in fact, it was still one more “republic” within the USSR.

Once the sword of the world revolution got blunt, “hostile environment” could pass to the offensive.

In September 1922 the forced expulsion of prominent representatives of Russian intelligentsia abroad began. Thus intellectual basis of regime opposition was abolished.