This long quote is a case study in the cynical, inhuman attitude of the man who then ruled almost half of the planet (the lecture took place in 1947). Comrade Stalin further commented on Ivan the Terrible’s mistakes, noting that one of them was his failure to do away with five large feudal families had he done so, there would have been no Time of Trouble in Russia… joking that ‘Ivan was impeded by God.’ Ivan the Terrible did away with one such feudal boyar family and then spent a year repenting, praying for God to forgive him his sin, whereas he should have acted in a more resolute manner!” Comrade Stalin also noted the progressive role played by the Oprichnina. Stressing Ivan the Terrible’s progressive endeavors, Comrade Stalin said Ivan IV was the first to institute Russia’s foreign trade monopoly, adding that Lenin was the only one to follow suit. Stalin told them that Ivan the Terrible was an outstanding, progressive statesman who had played a far more important role in Russia’s history than Peter I (who “never finished his tasks,” said Uncle Joe): “Commenting on Ivan the Terrible’s activities as a statesman, Comrade Stalin noted that Ivan IV was a great and sage ruler who secured his country against foreign influence, who sought to unite Russia. Cherkasov recounted this lecture by the “master of all sciences” in his Notes of a Soviet Actor, published in 1953.
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Joseph Stalin, one of the most horrifying rulers of Russia, made an important statement concerning this system when delivering a kind of lecture attended, among others, by the Soviet movie star, Nikolai Cherkasov, and the celebrated film director, Sergei Eisenstein, who made the Soviet blockbuster Ivan the Terrible. However, even a quick analysis proves that there was logic behind their actions, that each had built a certain system. For example, why did the rulers of Muscovy, and later the Russian and Soviet empires - Ivan the Terrible, Peter I, Joseph Stalin - time and again activate their machine of physical destruction, considering they had practically suppressed all opposition? Perhaps mental problems were the culprit. A tyrant invariably means living hell to his subjects and more often than not remains a mystery for historians.
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