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The cult of progress, national communism and a paranoid vision of the class struggle form the primary ideology of the dictator.
Diabolical. Stalin and Beria (left), boss of the NKVD, the sinister secret police of the USSR, on the Black Sea, around 1935.
By Jean Lopez*
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LStalin’s worldview has no religious or spiritual content, and it rules out any form of transcendence. Like all communists, he puts a capital P on the word progress, especially in its scientific and technical form. He would also gladly receive scholars, engineers and explorers in the Kremlin. Nevertheless, the utopia in which Stalin will believe until the end of his life is reduced to the idea that communism is the only system of the future, the only viable destiny of humanity. Whether his opportunism and cynicism had more substance than his adherence to principles, even those of Lenin, remains unresolved by his biographers. I nevertheless line up in the camp of those who think that he was above all an ideologue, a believer. The…
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