Any false step, the slightest mistake, all the petty details of their personal life are registered in the archives of the party ; when necessary they are brought forth, and ruin the culprit. Gradually everybody began to spy - friends, wives, children. The "data" concerning the higher officials are kept on file in a safe in the dictator's office. Using them, Stalin weaves, like a spider, his deadly cobweb and strangles with it the disobedient.
The dictator definitely replaced the name inherited from his forefathers by another which corresponds to his nature: "Stalin", a man of steel, a man as strong and flexible as this metal. More than once in his lifetime Stalin had to bend, but never has he been broken. He always rose and dealt his enemy the decisive blow. Perhaps this will be his attitude to the last moment. If it is impossible to go straight to his mark, he will tack and show the greatest subtlety, but he will finally reach his goal. Neither life nor men can bend him completely; he can be only broken. Sooner or later this will happen
Stalin is doomed just as Robespierre was doomed. One thing is obvious: the superhuman grip with which he holds Russia cannot last forever. It is impossible to force the present generations to sacrifice perpetually for the sake of the future. Sometime they will rise and say: "We want also to live, not for the coming ages, but for our own sake." This is a law of history. All revolutions have closed thus. The October revolution in Russia will doubtless close precisely in the same way.