History Lesson - Part IV

“There is undoubtedly a major incongruity between the logic of the clan – involving allegiance and the destruction of all political, personal, and professional relations of solidarity not based upon political adhesion to Stalin’s politics or person – and the administrative approach of a modern industrial state founded on the principle of competence.”

- Nicolas Werth, Stalinism & Nazism: History and Memory Compared, pg. 32