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What made the generation-switch hard in Soviet Union?
I always wondered, why didn't the Soviet leadership have similar generation changes like Chinese had later with Deng Xiao Ping?
Only Gorbachev could get the leadership as second-generation communist ...
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Were dissident KPD members ratted out to the Gestapo?
In her essay "Gestern Morgen", Bini Adamczak tells a story from Manes Sperbers "Wie eine Träne im Ozean." I'll paraphrase:
In 1935, a member of the German Communist Party (KPD) finds himself
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