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The Stalin personality cult era after WWII when he was slipping off into dementia while suffering delusions doesn't really need to be defended. Even the USSR admonished Stalin for his mismanagement and cruelty.
Emigration slowed down during the Khrushchev era, and then picked up again after the Afghanistan war debacle began unfolding. So it is not like it was constant either.
wait when was this lol
Stalin near the end had gone through half-a-dozen strokes, and was taking medical advice from a veterinarian.
His suspicious nature went into full blown paranoia, and he pretty much lost it.
sources and when did this happen?
Read it in a book long ago.
Found an article with some of the keywords, but it is just the abstract. There are 10 sources for the paper though.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-1331.1999.tb00004.x
Omg literally me
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