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What made Stalin become so merciless was the
materialist philosophy he believed in. An un-
smiling portrait of Marx hung in the office
where he signed millions of death warrants.
camps. Between the years 1928 and 1953 (when Stalin died), an esti-
mated more than 30 million individuals whose ideas differed from those
of the Soviet administration were arrested and sent to gulags, generally
established in regions like Siberia where conditions were unlivable.
More than two thirds of these—that is, at least 20 million—died in these
camps. Inmates living on the edge of starvation were worked between
