Great post.

In Lenin’s Tomb, David Remnick tells how someone once lamented to Vyacheslav Molotov how much better things might’ve been had Lenin survived, delaying the horrors of his successor.

This sounds sensible to most Americans today, but Molotov, one of the few people to ever intimately know both Lenin and Stalin, scoffed at the notion.

“Compared to Lenin,“ he said. “Stalin was a lamb.”