Stalin: GENIUS OR MONSTER? ... Stalin spoke these words in a speech to Party at a meeting in Leningrad, April 1926. ... Some people called it paranoia, Stalin's obvious fear of being "left behind" or defeated because of Russia's backwardness, other's called it prophecy, that Stalin could predict Russia's fate. ... Louis Fischer, The Life and Death of Stalin. ... So then how did Stalin justify conditions in the labour camps? ...

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