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the other hand tens of thousands of people were executed by Stalin's sec-
ret police. Millions of people were forced to migrate to the furthest cor-
ners of Russia, including the Crimean and Turkestan Turks.
By these bloody policies Stalin killed some 20 million people. Histo-
rians have revealed that this savagery gave him enormous personal ple-
asure. It gave him great pleasure to sit at his desk in the Kremlin and exa-
mine the lists of those who had died in the concentration camps or who
had been executed.
Apart from his personal psychological state, the main influence
which lead him to become such a ruthless killer was the materialist philo-
sophy he believed in. In Stalin's own words, the fundamental basis of this
philosophy was Darwin's theory
of evolution. He explained the
importance he attached to Dar-
win's ideas:
There are three things that we do to
disabuse the minds of our seminary
students. We had to teach them the
age of the earth, the geologic origin,
and Darwin's teachings. 91
While Stalin was still alive a
close childhood friend of his re-
counted how Stalin had become
an atheist in the book Landmarks
in the Life of Stalin:
At a very early age, while still a pu-
pil in the ecclesiastical school, Com-
rade Stalin developed a critical mind
and revolutionary sentiments. He
began to read Darwin and became
an atheist. 92
Stalin, one of the bloodiest names in history,
the cause of the killing of tens of millions of
people, death from starvation and poverty,
and of millions of people being left without
homes and jobs.