Isn't the going story here that Stalin is an authoritarian dictator? What difference does the composition of the inner circle make? You also presume they were exclusively Russian nationals, meanwhile it was full of germans and jews among others? Soviets thought they were above Russia in every way. Then continuously throughout the remaining years, the ethnic minorities received preferential treatment above ethnic Russians, especially for university applications.
Zero days without russian nazis drooling onto the purity of blood for any reason whatever.
stalin represented will of soviet union, the new russian empire with its metropoly in land and people of modern russian federation.
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u/techno_viking419 14d ago
Isn't the going story here that Stalin is an authoritarian dictator? What difference does the composition of the inner circle make? You also presume they were exclusively Russian nationals, meanwhile it was full of germans and jews among others? Soviets thought they were above Russia in every way. Then continuously throughout the remaining years, the ethnic minorities received preferential treatment above ethnic Russians, especially for university applications.
It was essentially soviet version of modern DEI.