February 28, 2022 By Michael Curtis
Throughout history, political leaders have acted in strange fashion, with symptoms of neurosis, trauma, and anxiety. The list is long of those exhibiting some indication of insanity. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon 604-562 B.C., made no secret of his ambition to conquer the world, and saw himself as a deity. Caligula, Emperor of Rome, attempted to appoint his horse to the office of consul. Ivan the Terrible expanded the territory of Russia, created the secret police, and murdered his own son. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin vie for leading personification of hatred, evil, and madness.
Russia this week may remember that
madness since it is the anniversary of a speech denouncing a regime of
suspicion, fear, and terror. On February 25, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of
the Soviet Union, delivered a speech at the 20th Congress of
the Communist Party denouncing his predecessor Joseph Stalin as a brutal
despot. He revealed the cruelties of the regime, the trials of members of the
Politburo, the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934, and the execution of
innocent political rivals for that assassination. Khrushchev indicated that in
1937-1938, 98 of the 139 members of the Central Committee of the party were
killed on Stalin’s orders...........To Read More....
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