Stalin’s most creative hours were the hours of darkness.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle.
Amusingly or tellingly, earlier in the book the mass-murdering totalitarian communist icon Stalin is referred to as ‘The Leader of All Progressive Mankind” - just to remind one of where this wonderful progress led back in the day. Just because you’re progressing somewhere doesn’t mean it’s somewhere you might particularly want to end up.
I wrote about Progress in the ideological sense here, and how the meaning of that word got itself very confused.
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