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This is fair, comrade, and an opportunity for me to purge my own internal reactionary. I think I was perhaps hasty in my writing trying to recognize the achievements of Lenin that I glossed over the failings of Stalin and the larger recognition that sometimes in times of crisis we're more forgiving of flaws that we would hold to greater account in times of peace.