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31. Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956 to the Twentieth Party Congress, denouncing Stalin, remained unpublished.

32. Modernization by tyranny is no more likely to work today than it did when Stalin tried it half a century ago.

33. It is widely conjectured that Stalin himself planned the murder of Kirov.

34. Stalin sat at the table, drinking a can of beer.

35. Stalin emerged as the chief political representative of the ruling bureaucracy.

36. Alarmed by Hitler's rise to power, Stalin was actively pursuing an alliance with the Western democracies.

37. The dining room possessed a huge marble bust of Stalin, but little succulent to eat.

38. After the war Stalin did not wish to give up these territorial gains.

39. During that visit an extract from Volkogonov's forthcoming book on Stalin had appeared in the press and caused a stir.

40. Stalin excused the appalling conduct of his troops and encouraged an official mind-set that allowed the rapes to continue.

41. Stalin, let alone Mao, has never achieved remotely comparable diabolic status.

42. From the time of Stalin, at least, modesty and megalomania have gone hand in hand.

43. You wonder, hopefully, if Stalin spent many sleepless nights listening to those bells count off his hours.

44. In May 1949, after almost a year of crisis, Stalin conceded defeat and reopened land access to the city.

45. Before dying in March 1953 Stalin seems to have decided at last to get rid of him.

46. Longtime Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin was quick to absorb the lesson.

47. Stalin immediately endorsed the proposal,(http://sentencedict.com/stalin.html) adding that Indochinese independence might follow in two or three decades.

48. Stalin had long been unmentionable and Volkogonov was said to be using closed secret archives.

49. On many occasions, Stalin purged the armed forces of senior commanders.

50. In 1917 Stalin became editor of Pravda, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party.

51. The Soviet leadership openly proclaimed the illegitimacy of military bases on foreign territories only after the death of Stalin.

52. It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

53. After World War II, Stalin had become a godlike figure in the Soviet Union.

54. Beria therefore had a vital interest in seeing Stalin laid into a coffin, and there were rumours that he murdered him.

55. I do not want to suggest that Stalin had nothing to do with the origins of the cold war.

56. On the other hand, neither Stalin nor Mao were moderated by the size of their countries.

57. It stood in contrast to the totalitarianism gathering pace under Lenin and Trotsky which accelerated out of control under Stalin.

58. But the new President, in spite of his doubts about Soviet motives, did not rush towards a showdown with Stalin.

59. In part, this was because he still thought he could make Stalin behave by applying economic pressure.

60. Stalin and Trotsky were mutual enemies.