From Loving Stalin to Loving Truth: The Journey Beyond the Half-Truths

Any half-truth leads to Truth if you don’t stop at the level of the half-truth.

People from my grandma’s generation struggled deeply with the collapse of the USSR. I remember the confusion in her eyes in 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated. Everything she knew to be true turned out to be a lie. As she watched the TV, the idols of her generation (1920s) crumbled one by one.

The idea of Stalin being a tyrant and a murderer was t…