if he thought that stalin was a sociopath, if he thought in the summer of 1923 that stalin's rule could murder tens of millions of people, including kominev himself, if he noticed anything extremely threatening about stalin this was his opportunity to engage in this conspiracy and remove stalin from this powerful position. certainly if i were ambitious, and moreover if i were afraid that stalin was socialow pathic i would not have hesitated to act upon his alleged dictation by lenin and sought to remove stalin. let's be honest. people have sought to remove their rivals with less than a command from lenin to remove stalin. but minev writes back and says, you're exaggerating. in other words, the person who is close toast stalin on a day-to-day work basis, coominev who knows stalin as well as anybody, he has met stalin 20 years earlier. ... so i said to myself this is not definitive the summer of 1923. it doesn't forever decide the question but it's a very interesting episode. evidently stalin's closest comrade did not perceive the sociopathic behavior that we will see later as of summer 1

if he thought that stalin was a sociopath, if he thought in the summer of 1923 that stalin's rule could murder tens of millions of people, including kominev himself, if he noticed anything extremely threatening about stalin this was his opportunity to engage in this conspiracy and remove stalin from this powerful position. certainly if i were ambitious, and moreover if i were afraid that stalin was socialow pathic i would not have hesitated to act upon his alleged dictation by lenin and sought to remove stalin. let's be honest. people have sought to remove their rivals with less than a command from lenin to remove stalin. but minev writes back and says, you're exaggerating. in other words, the person who is close toast stalin on a day-to-day work basis, coominev who knows stalin as well as anybody, he has met stalin 20 years earlier. ... so i said to myself this is not definitive the summer of 1923. it doesn't forever decide the question but it's a very interesting episode. evidently stalin's closest comrade did not perceive the sociopathic behavior that we will see later as of summer 1