Organizational changes, especially if they are long and unpredictable, can cause somebody a stomach upset.

The Kremlin was left no choice but to return to a policy of “colonization of the village”, which was held earlier by S.J. Vitte while realizing industrialization — in other ways it was repeated in the 1930-s. But from 1947 till 1949 a series of measures were undertaken that made the peasants’ situation mournful.

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

There is a very simple definition of trust – readiness to put oneself in a vulnerable position.

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.