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Public confessions by old Bolsheviks that Jiang interprets as sacrificial acts preserving revolutionary meaning.
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show trials
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...elections and he'll get a pardon for this so it's all show trial uh well i mean"
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The show-trial confessions are explained through revolutionary original sin: old Bolsheviks had sacrificed everything for the revolution, so they could accept self-sacrifice to cleanse and preserve it.
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"...secret units, okay? And so on. All right? There are the show trials where the Bolshevik leaders, the old guard, they confess to being..."
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"50 or 57 army corps commanders, 154 out of 186 division commanders. So what he did was he completely wiped out the entire leadership..."
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"And so I know this is a hard idea to understand, but let's just do a thought experiment to understand this idea. Let's say..."
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"Now the show trials, basically all the leading Bolsheviks, anyone who could have possibly challenged Stalin were arrested, and they confessed to being criminals,..."
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"...So what's brilliant about this is Stalin put these people on trial, and he knew that ultimately they would confess. And this would cement..."
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"...elections and he'll get a pardon for this so it's all show trial uh well i mean"
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