> it becane a tradition for russian czars to go lenient on the most dangerous people society had produced when it came to their own safety.
Was it this, or was it that they were imprisoning so may people that killing them all was impractical? Separating the bad from the very bad became rather tricky as the state disintegrated.
> If I'm not mistaken, Lenin himself, and even Stalin, were exiled
Simon Sebag-Montefiore has done a great book about Stalin’s early years [1]. The follow [2] on is good too, but even darker.
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