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Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2002 Stalin saw Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevski as the potential leader of a military coup. What's more, Tukhachevski publicly accused Stalin of losing the Polish campaign of 1920. Stripped of his office and appointed to command the obscure Volzhski military district in Kuibyshev, Tukhachevski was doomed ? but Stalin never acted openly. On May 13, 1937, he invited Tukhachevski to the Kremlin. The Party, said Stalin, still had confidence in the Marshal, and wished him success in his new command. On May 22, they arrested Tukhachevski in Kuibyshev and brought him to Moscow to be shot...
...evil with charismatic bullying. Morrow writes of the terrifying ordinariness of bin Laden, Adolf Eichmann and other perpetrators of organized murder. He says we are often amazed by the nondescript appearance of the evildoers. What do we expect? Horns? A tail? The facts are that Eichmann, bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin and all the other petty yet charismatic men of history who committed such heinous acts had three things in common: they were fanatics; they organized others to do their dirty work; and, most crucial, they were not supernormal madmen--not Satan, not some abstract species of evil--but merely human...
...graves alone were the measure, Osama bin Laden would own this year; we lost more lives on Sept. 11 than in any terrorist attack in U.S. history. And bin Laden did more than kill people. We had just packed up and stored away the century of Hitler and Stalin--both Men of the Year in their time--which we imagined had shown us the depths to which a despot could sink. To watch bin Laden sit in delight and create a skyscraper with his hand--like a child playing Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple--then slowly crumple...
...graves alone were the measure, Osama bin Laden would own this year; we lost more lives on Sept. 11 than in any terrorist attack in U.S. history. And bin Laden did more than kill people. We had just packed up and stored away the century of Hitler and Stalin?both Men of the Year in their time?which we imagined had shown us the depths to which a despot could sink. To watch bin Laden sit in delight and create a skyscraper with his hand?like a child playing Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple?then slowly crumple...
...Observer, his family's Sunday paper and Britain's oldest; in London. He used the paper to champion his friend Nelson Mandela, condemn Britain's attempt to take the Suez Canal from Egypt, and print, without advertisements, Nikita Khrushchev's 26,000-word denunciation of Stalin...