/lit/ - Literature

I thought the Soviet Union was pretty bad. Then I started to read "The Court of the Red Tsar" and now I recognize that Nazi Germany was pretty tame and that Hitler was a, kind hearted and reasonable person.

I had no idea. The stuff in the OP pages is NOTHING. Stalin would have the secret police arrest and torture the wives of his closest comrades and if they would try to intercede the whole family would go to hell. The reason for these arrests was that these men loved their wife very much, and that was suspicious behaviour.