"The reader must remember that Corti is not writing this discussion as a representation of a historical event; rather, he writes it as a dialogue between idealistic communism (Stalin) and dissembling communism (his accusers). While Corti does present the Politburo as the dissemblers, he means instead to indict the soft" Communism of the West, whose adherents spent 20 years denying the rumors of repression and massacres like the famine of the early 1930s, then changing their tune during Krushchev's de-Stalinization program. Corti is declaring, insisting, and repeating, that Communism itself is un-scientific, un-realistic, and anti-human.
A devout Catholic, Corti claims moreover that the only logical conclusion of Stalin's regime is that Catholicism is correct: man, infected by original sin, cannot bring about paradise on earth, and certainly cannot bring about any paradise without God.""
Trial and death of Stalin, pt. 1 (of 1, maybe 2 or 3) (http://cantanima.blogspot.com/2005/06/trial-and-death-of-stalin-pt-1-of-1.html)"Now, imagine that you are Stalin. Lenin had believed, and proclaimed publicly, that the Soviet Union would have developed into a communist state within one decade, two at the most. At the end of the 1920s, however, not only had all five of these chararacteristics failed to materialize; not one of the five conditions had materialized. If anything, the bureacracy, the army, and the police had become more necessary, and while incomes were somewhat level, there were still differences in salary because otherwise people wouldn't perform well in certain jobs.
Stalin, a true believer in Communist theory, came to the only conclusion possible within Communist thought: the problem was sabotage, and a sabotage at all levels:";" 9788881555192""
Trial and death of Stalin, pt. 2 (of 2, maybe 3 or 4) (https://cantanima.blogspot.com/2005/06/trial-and-death-of-stalin-pt-2-of-2.html)