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| 8a35bcc | ...The strange thing, you know, is that Stalin openly admired Ivan the Terrible. Two leaders who were willing to crush and kill their own people-to do anything necessary- in order to consolidate their power...Can you imagine a world in which Stalin could live for five hundred years...or perhaps forever? | ivan-the-terrible vlad-the-impaler political-power stalin | Elizabeth Kostova |