submitted by High_Energy
Pasternak later said, "If, in a bad dream, we had seen all the horrors in store for us after the war, we should not have been sorry to see Stalin fall, together with Hitler. Then, an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
Pasternak later said, "If, in a bad dream, we had seen all the horrors in store for us after the war, we should not have been sorry to see Stalin fall, together with Hitler. Then, an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
They obviously don't read the accounts as its a conveyor belt of executors executing their boss the executor who executed his boss, etc. Stalin would set a guy up with three assassins then kill the three assassins and all their chauffeurs and family members to get rid of any evidence. If you haven't already, look up the murder of Stalin's longtime friend, Sergey Kirov, which some claim Stalin was responsible for and used as a pretext to launch the Great Purge, in which about a million people perished.
I had heard the numbers but its not the same as reading the details...or, perhaps, seeing a movie...which would really help flesh it out, so to speak.
Anyways, they also probably think of themselves as working class and above communist reproach. As they fiddlefart away in their fancy wood shops, $2,000 apartments and indulge in careers via M&P bribing college entrance counselors.