... kind of dissidence--through purges, show trials, concentration camps and massive brain-washing on completely government-controlled media. But everything has its end and so did Stalin--he died in 1953 and other people took over: Nikita Khruschev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Andrei Chernenko and at last Mikhail Gorbachev. Under these Soviet leaders the situation of domestic suppression vacillated ... the socialist and capitalist systems that could eliminate or substantially reduce these dangers, which had been increased many times over by the division of the world into opposing camps....

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