"Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology."

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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.

— Robert Anton Wilson